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Houri Berberian

Ph.D.

Academic Profile

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 “Unequivocal Sole Ruler”: The Lives of New Julfan Armenian Women and Early Modern Laws,” Journal for the Society of Armenian Studies 23 (2014): 83-112; “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, 2005), 10-14; "Armenian Women in Turn-of-the-Century Iran: Education and Activism,” in Rudi Matthee and Beth Baron, eds., Iran and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2000), 70-98; and forthcoming, forthcoming “Gendered Narratives of Transgressive Politics: Recovering Revolutionary Rubina,” in Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers in Turn of the Century Eurasia Minor, 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 co-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).

Current Position

Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, UCI