Call for Applications: 2022-2023 PhD Candidate Research Fellowships
USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research Deadline: February 15, 2022 The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is inviting proposals for its three research fellowships for advanced-standing PhD candidates. Each fellowship provides $4,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding advanced-standing PhD candidate from any discipline for dissertation research focused on testimony …
Read MoreIntermediate Classical Armenian Summer School at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library in Collegeville, Minnesota
An Intermediate Classical Armenian Summer school is being offered at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library in Collegeville, Minnesota in summer 2022, taught by SAS members Prof. Abraham Terian and Dr. Jesse Arlen. Apart from travel costs to Minnesota, the course fees as well as room & board, will be fully covered for admitted students, thanks to funding from Dumbarton …
Read MoreFuture of Karabakh: USC Institute of Armenian Studies’ Call For Research
The 2020 Karabakh (Artsakh) War created new challenges and exacerbated unanswered questions about the future of regional relations and the status of Karabakh / Artsakh. Following the Russia-brokered ceasefire of November 2020 that ended the second Karabakh War, and despite the presence of Russian peacekeepers on the ground, continuing military clashes on Karabakh’s borders and on …
Read MoreSAS Awards Travel, Research Grants to Graduate Students for Fall 2021
The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) has selected its awardees for its Graduate Research and Conference Grants Program for M.A. and Ph.D. Students for the Fall of 2021. Established in 2019, the aim of the Grants Program is to provide resources for graduate students to conduct research and present papers at conferences. Grants of up to $1000 are awarded …
Read MoreCall for SAS Best Conference Paper (2019-2021)
The SAS Executive Council will award two (2) $500.00 prizes for the best paper presented by a graduate student at a conference between 2019-2021. Papers given at a conference should be sent electronically (pdf format) to SAS President Bedross Der Matossian, bdermatossian2@unl.edu. Deadline for submission: December 1, 2021 Papers may be in English or Armenian. The paper will be judged …
Read MoreSociety for Armenian Studies (SAS) and Artsakh State University (ArSU) Sign Agreement on Cooperation
As part of its new policy to strengthen ties with academic institutions in Armenia and Artsakh, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) signed an Agreement on Cooperation on October 25, 2021, with Artsakh State University (ArSU). The Agreement aims at cooperating on different academic projects that would be beneficial to both parties and to advance the field of Armenian Studies. …
Read MoreDer Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award Recipient Announced
The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) announced that Richard E. Antaramian’s Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2020) has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award. An honorable mention has been awarded to Stephen Badalyan Riegg’s Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The …
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