Alumni with Armenian Studies Degrees or Concentrations
Since 2017 students at UC Berkeley have had the opportunity to pick a major track concentration or minor in Armenian Studies through the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Below, you will also find our graduate student alumni, who, in various departments, have concentrated on Armenian topics for their MA, MS, or PhD research and worked with Armenian Studies faculty.
Undergraduate Alumni with a Major Track
2017
- Sareen Habeshian
2020
- Lillian Avedian
2021
- Marinor Balouzian
Honors Thesis Title: "How Does an Endangered Language Survive? Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Creating Armenian in the Diaspora”
2023
- Nareh Aghakhanian
Honors Thesis Title: “National Identity and the Evolution of Armenian Educational Standards in the Twenty-First Century” - Tatev Khachikyan
Honors Thesis Title: “The Effects of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on Armenian Domestic, Economic, and Political Life” - Anthony Degoian
Hrair Terzian Award Recipient
Undergraduate Alumni with a Minor
2021
- Claire Bogosian
2022
- Evelyn Moradian
2023
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Raffi Grigoryan
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Catherine Manukyan
2024
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Thalia Colarian
Hrair Terzian Award Recipient
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Hrag Kassabian
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Julia Sarieva
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Arpine Sinani
2025
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Sona Asatryan
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Ernest Baghdasaryan
Hrair Terzian Award Recipient -
Clement Hudson
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Annette Oganesyan
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Alexander Tavidian
Undergraduate Alumni with Armenian Studies Concentrations
2024
- Hrachia George Kasabyan, B.A. Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Honors Thesis Title: Controlling the Narrative: Re-Examining Myths of Armenia’s Conversion to Christianity -
Hrag Kyle Kassabian, B.A. History
Honors Thesis Title: Origins of Liberal Internationalism in the Russo-Ottoman Borderlands: British Intervention in Circassia and Armenia (1830s-World War I) - Alex Hrach Mooradian, B.A. History
Honors Thesis Title: ‘Then What is White?’ The Prerequisite Courts and Their Role in the Racial Categorization of Middle Eastern Immigrants
2025
- Harout Albarian, B.A. Political Science
Independent Research Study Title: Irredentist Schizophrenia: The Ambivalent Relationship between Territorial Sovereignty and Armenian Collective Memory - Melody Seraydarian, B.A. Media Studies
Graduate Alumni with Armenian Studies Concentrations
2019
- Evangeline McGlynn, Ph.D. Geography
Dissertation: Reading the Disaster Landscape: Ruin & Resilience in Gyumri, Armenia
2025
- Michael Khoylyan, M.A. Global Studies
Thesis: Negotiating Hostility: Mediation, Coercion, and the Limits of Peacebuilding in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict - Hasmik Djoulakian, M.S. Energy and Resources Group
Thesis: Food Sovereign Futures: More-than-human Networks of Care Among Displaced Artsakh Armenians
