Dr. Garabet K. Moumdjian
Dear SAS member, We are sorry to bear the sad news of the passing of historian and educator and long time SAS member Dr. Garabet K. Moumdjian. Moumdjian was an independent historian and an Ottomanist. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2012 from UCLA under the supervision of Prof. Richard Hovannisian. His dissertation is titled “Struggling for a Constitutional Regime: Armenian-Young …
Read MoreSAS Spring 2023 Graduate Research and Conference Grants Available for M.A. and Ph.D. Students
The Society for Armenian Studies invites applicants to apply for the Spring 2023 SAS Graduate Research and Conference Grants for M.A. and Ph.D. students. The deadline is April 30, 2023. Grants of up to $1000.00 per applicant will be awarded. Applicants must be current members of the Society for Armenian Studies. The grants will be on a competitive basis. Funding will also …
Read MoreRemembering Gevorg Ter-Vardanyan with Erin Piñon (Princeton University)
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Gevorg Ter-Vardanyan, a titan in all things Armenian—a man whose forceful presence will not soon be forgotten in the long corridors of the Matenadaran, its conference halls, or his seat in its manuscript vault. Visitors to the vault’s reading room were well familiar with the cacophonous buzz and lively …
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