Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater collection, 1920s-2015 (bulk 1980s-2000s)

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Summary

Title:
Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater collection
Dates:
1920s-2015 (bulk 1980s-2000s)
Creators:
Yarshater, Ehsan, 1920-2018 and Yarshater, Mojdeh
Extent:
7.5 Linear Feet (5 cartons)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater collection (M3023). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection covers the late 1920s-2015 (bulk 1980s-2000s). The majority of the collection consists of Ehsan Yarshater's correspondence, but there are are also research files and other materials. The collection also includes hundreds of archival documents, correspondence, and research files that belonged to Latifeh Yarshater (1926-1999). Many of the materials collected by Latifeh Yarshater deal with women's rights organizations, events, and activists in Iran during the 1950s-1960s. The documents and correspondences in the collection are primarily in Persian, English, and French.

Biographical / historical:

Ehsan Yarshater (1920-2018) was born in Hamadan, Iran, and studied Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran and Iranian philology at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. He met Latifeh Alvieh in 1943 and they married and moved to New York in 1961. From the early 1960s to the early 2000s, he taught as the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Encyclopaedia Iranica and the Center for Iranian Studies.

Latifeh Alvieh Yarshater (1926-1999) graduated from the American School for Girls in Tehran and held a B.A. and M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University. From 1951 through 1961 she served as Cultural Advisor to the United States Information Service in Tehran in its leader grant program. She was founder and president of Shahnaz Girls Clubs, and a founding member of the National Council of the Women of Iran. After moving to New York in 1961 she served on numerous councils and committees, including the Women's National Council in the United States. She published several articles in both Persian and English. From 1986-1990 she worked at the Middle East Institute of Columbia University as Coordinator of its Outreach Program. She also worked on the Encyclopaedia Iranica and in 1983 the Yarshaters established the Persian Heritage Foundation to support the work of the Encyclopaedia Iranica.

Acquisition information:
The Yarshater family donated the Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater papers to the Stanford University Library in 2023.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-10 10:49:25 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Terms of access:

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish Raw Formatted

Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater collection (M3023). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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