Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Awards Announced

The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) is pleased to announce that Talar Chahinian’s Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse University Press, 2023) and Ari Şekeryan’s The Armenians and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire: After Genocide, 1918–1923 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) have been awarded this year’s Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award. An honorable mention has been awarded to Vartan Matiossian’s The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History, and ‘Medz Yeghern’ (I.B. Tauris, 2022).

New Classes at University of California-Irvine Aim to Advance Western Armenian

Talia Housik

When Houri Berberian became the Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies at UCI in 2016, she had a vision of what the School of Humanities program could become.

With the aid of donors (Southern California is home to the nation’s largest Armenian community), her vision is coming into focus with a comprehensive approach to Armenian history, including courses such as “Armenians and Armenia in Modern World History” and “Armenians and Armenia in Ancient to Early Modern World History.” But Berberian wanted to add more depth to the curriculum.

For her, that meant creating a language series in Western Armenian.