Elizabeth Peterson

Elizabeth received a bachelor's degree in Persian Language & Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her final paper, as a Mary Gates Scholar, was about how the Tomb of Cyrus the Great was thought of in ancient, medieval, and modern Iran. Additionally, she studied the Persian ghazal and translated poems of medieval poets such as Rumi, Saadi Shirazi, and Jahan Malek Khatun. She then studied Iranian history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she primarily wrote about religious interaction in the Sasanian Empire.