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Houri Berberian, Ph.D.Professor of History California State University, Long Beach |
Prof. Berberian’s research interests lie in Iran, specifically the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and Armenians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which is the topic of her book. Her interests also include Iranian-Armenian women’s activism and issues of Iranian-Armenian identity and memory. More recently, she has begun exploring the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism of Iranian-Armenians as exemplified by the Sheriman family. She is currently investigating the role of women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Julfan merchant families as Keddie-Balzan Fellow at UCLA (2007-2008). The trajectory that her scholarship has taken further back in time with a new set of characters is due in large part to her continued interest in identity and her commitment to exploring the connectedness of peoples, in her case Iranian-Armenians, to the wider world in which they lived and even thrived.
B.A. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Book:
Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: “The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland.” (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001).
Articles:
“Armenian Women in the late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Persia,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, available online: www.iranica.com.
“History, Memory, and Iranian-Armenian Memoirs of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution,” in Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 17, 3 (Fall 2008): 261-92.
“Traversing Boundaries and Selves: Iranian Armenian Identities during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and Middle East 25, 2 (Summer 2005), 279-96.
“Armenian Women and Women in Armenian Religion,” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. II, eds. Suad Joseph and Afsaneh Najmabadi (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004).
Armenian Women in Turn-of-the-Century Iran: Education and Activism,” in Iran and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie, edited by Beth Baron and Rudi Matthee (Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2000). [Recipient of Association of Middle East Women’s Studies Prize for Excellence in a Published Article, November 2000.]
"The Dashnaktsutiun and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1911," Iranian Studies, 29, 1-2 (Winter/Spring 1996): 1-28.
Keddie-Balzan Fellowship, UCLA, 2007-2008
HISTORY 211:
World, Origins to 1500
HISTORY 301:
Methodology
HISTORY 349:
History of Food
HISTORY 394:
Middle Eastern Women
HISTORY 431/531:
Middle East (Southwest Asia), 600-1700
HISTORY 432/532:
Middle East (Southwest Asia), 1700 -Present
HISTORY 499:
Senior Seminar
HISTORY 510 :
Literature of Middle Eastern History
