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Houri Berberian
University of California, Irvine
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Department of History
University of California, Irvine Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine CA 92697
United States
ABOUT
Houri Berberian is Professor of History, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, Director of the Center for Armenian Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include revolutionary movements, women and gender, and identity and diaspora. She is the author of several articles and book chapters on women and gender, including most recently “Gendered Narratives of Transgressive Politics: Recovering Revolutionary Rubina,” in Age of Rogues, edited by Ramazan Hakki Oztan & Alp Yenen (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Her books include the co-edited (with Touraj Daryaee) Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography (Irvine: Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018) and two single-authored monographs, Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: “The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland” (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001) and, most recently, Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019). Roving Revolutionaries was the recipient of the Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies and the Der Mugrdechian Society for Armenian Studies Outstanding Book Award (2019) and Shortlisted for the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in History and Humanities (2020).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Armenian Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Iranian Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Armenia
Iran
Specialties
Identity & Memory
Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Iranian-Armenian Community
Languages
Arabic (elementary)
Armenian (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Greek (elementary)
Persian (intermediate)
Russian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 1997 | Hist | UCLA
Abstracts
Connecting Revolutions: Armenians and the Ottoman, Iranian, and Russian Revolutions Crossing Imperial and Ideological Frontiers: Armenian Revolutionaries and Ideas in Motion