Check out Dr. Dzovinar Derderian's new co-edited special issue "Objects of Thought: Material Objects, Materiality, and Armenian Studies" published in Études arméniennes contemporaines. All articles are open access.
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January 13, 2026
November 14, 2025
Joseph Tertzakian-Harris is a recipient of summer travel awards from both the Armenian Studies Program (ASP) and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES). We interviewed him to talk about himself, his experience this past summer in Armenia, and his involvement with the UC Berkeley Armenian Studies Program.
June 26, 2025
Read the commencement speech of Ernest Baghdasaryan, the recipient of the 2025 English Department's citation.
In addition to his achievements in the English Department, Ernest was the 2025 recipient of the Armenian Studies Hrair Terzian Award.
Find out more about his story and what he's accomplished at UC Berkeley here.
June 16, 2025
Learn more about the establishment of the Armenian Language and Literature endowment by checking out this article from Berkeley's Division of Arts and Humanities. The article covers the longterm benefits of the establishment of this new fund as well as the efforts untertaken by Dr. Eric Esrailian to bring it into fruition.
February 12, 2025
Since Spring 2024, the Armenian Language in the Bay Area Project (ALBA) has been conducting interviews with members of the Armenian community across the San Francisco Bay area.
November 16, 2024
Check out Dr. Myrna Douzjian's Review Essay "Delimiting Diaspora" published in the Wasafiri journal's recent special issue titled "Armenia(n)s--Elevation" co-edited by Tatevik Ayvazyan and Naneh V. Hovhannisyan. The review covers three recently published books dealing with the Armenian Diaspora.
July 23, 2024
UC Berkeley undergraduate student Ernest Baghdasaryan received the Wells prize from the Department of English for an essay he wrote titled "An Armenian History of Shakespeare." To feature his work and his experience at UC Berkeley, the Armenian Studies Program asked him to give a brief interview.
May 20, 2024
History Professor Dzovinar Derderian talks about her students, Armenian history and mentorship
On May 14, the Armenian Studies Program at the University of California Berkeley celebrated the graduation of four Armenian Studies minors.
March 27, 2024
"Orders and Disorders of Marriage, Church, and Empire in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Armenia"
January 16, 2024
Check out this wonderful article "Advancing the Armenian Economy: Policy and Action" written by UC Berkeley student Sophia Papazian, with input from ASP Executive Director Dr. Dzovinar Derderian and UCB PhD Candidate in Economics Gevorg Khandamiryan