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In 2006, under the leadership of President Janet Afary, ISIS instituted two new awards for Life-Time Achievement in Iranian Studies. The first Life-Time Achievement in Iranian Studies Award for a Scholar Residing and Working Inside Iran was conferred on Professor Emeritus Iraj Afshar. Professor Ehsan Yarshater was chosen to receive the first Life-Time Achievement in Iranian Studies Award for a Scholar Residing and Working Outside of Iran.

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The 2010 ISIS Lifetime Achievement Awards

Awarded at the ISIS Biennial Conference May 2010.

Professors Jaleh Amouzgar, distinguished scholar residing in Iran and Richard Nelson Frye, distinguished scholar residing outside Iran were the 2010 recipients of the ISIS Lifetime Achievement Award.

The 2006 ISIS Lifetime Achievement Awards

The 2006 Life-Time Achievement Award for an Iranian Studies Scholar Residing and Working in Iran was presented to Professor Emeritus of Tehran University Iraj Afshar at the ISIS conference in London summer of 2006. Iraj Afshar for more than half a century labored to construct a foundation for Iranian Studies scholarship. Through his efforts to locate, compile, catalogue, critique, publish, and write the histories of thousands upon thousands of manuscripts, documents, writings, artefacts, persons, libraries, sources, he facilitated the work of generations of Iranian Studies scholars. The breadth of Iraj Afshar¹s scholarship is astounding, and his scholarly output was prodigious. His sons printed a bibliography of his scholarly publications in 2003, and then an addendum in 2004. Ahmad Ashraf, Mary Elaine Hegland, and Homa Katouzian served on the 2006 committee.

The Life-Time Achievement in Iranian Studies, for a Scholar Working and residing outside of Iran was awarded  to Hagop Kevorkian Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies and Editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, Ehsan Yarshater. Like Iraj Afshar, Dr. Ehsan Yarshater has devoted a life-time to facilitating the work of other Iranian Studies scholars, through gathering, compiling, editing, and publishing materials. Through his scholarship, editing, and teaching, he has made significant contributions to a variety of Iranian Studies fields. Dr. Ehsan Yarshater served as chief editor of Bongah-e Tarjomeh va Nashr-e Ketab for many years. He has produced many books and numerous articles and continues important work as EI Editor while also editing and contributing to a ten volume history of Persian literature. Ali Banuazizi, Mary Elaine Hegland, and Sholeh Quinn served on this award committee. (The Life-Time Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Ehsan Yarshater at the 2008 ISIS Biennial Conference.