The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) is a non-governmental, non-political, not-for-profit professional organization for researchers and scholars interested in the culture and civilization of the Persian-speaking societies and related areas in the Iranian civilizational area. It publishes the ASPS Newsletter twice a year (Editor, Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, Department of History, University of Minnesota Duluth: rstanfie@d.umn.edu), and has brought some thirty visitors from Iran and Central Asia to take part in academic and cultural conferences and conventions since it began its Travel Fellowship Program in 1998. In 2003, the Association began the annual publication of a collection of scholarly articles: Studies on Persianate Societies, edited by Said Amir Arjomand (Said.Arjomand@sunysb.edu) and Manouchehr Kasheff.