This dissertation examines the manner in which Turkish secularism has come to delimit, define, and calibrate minority religious practices as well as citizenship policies by tracing different categories of the secular and the religious in Turkey. It is an ethnographic study of co…
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My dissertation employs Armenian media sources in Lebanon to track the shifting dynamics of internally and externally constructed identifications of the Armenians in Lebanon from 1946-1958. I describe and analyze the debates that informed evolving conceptions of individual and c…
Although scholars have devoted substantial attention to Armenian revolutionary movements, the treatment of the subject of relations between various Armenian organizations and the Young Turks and their leaders, both individually or through various institutions, have received tang…
This thesis investigates the functional categories in the vP domain, including aspect, modality, and focus. For this research initiative, five constructions were examined: the Mandarin temporal adverbial, the Mandarin excessive tā, the Mandarin dé/bù , the Turkish question parti…
This study recounts aspects of the history of the Armenian immigrants to California up to the early 1930s, concentrating on settlement and economy, religion, and political and organizational life. It has relied mainly on printed materials in English and Armenian, making heavy us…
Here I tell the story of the Armenian movement for self-determination in Nagorno-Karabakh, tracing its development from initial popular uprisings of 1988 until the attainment of de facto independence and postwar stabilization in the mid-1990s. My main focus is on national consci…
From the late 1920s to the mid-1940s, France became home for many Armenian intellectuals and writers who survived the genocide. During this period, Paris served as the center of intellectual life for dispersed Armenians, producing an explosion of literary groups, journals, and a…
This dissertation examines and defines Armenian Diaspora identities in relationship to and reliance on the deportations and mutual massacres of 1915. By examining these painful events, I clarify the key role this trauma continues to play on Armenian Diaspora communities' identit…
The dissertation focuses on a small community of Armenian silk merchants from New Julfa, Isfahan who had established a global network of commercial settlements, spanning from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. It examines many issues, including the impact of long dista…
Although the mass deportations and massacres of Ottoman Armenians took place in 1915, stories emanating from these traumatic events have stayed current, circulating and evolving throughout the generations. This study examines the underlying factors in the transmission and perpet…
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of acculturation and ethnic orientation on the psychological adjustment of Armenian youth in California. Method. 181 Armenian youth, 94 boys and 85 girls between the ages of 13 and 18 were administered a demographic q…
This dissertation examines the role of music in reflecting and confronting various historical and political realities since the 1915 genocide that claimed the lives of approximately one million Armenians living in present-day Turkey and resulted in the dispersion of survivors th…
This paper examines the gendered themes in martyrologies concerning mid-fifth-century Sasanian persecutions. The Sasanian king Yazdgerd II (r. 438-457) introduced polices aimed at further centralizing his authority by forcing his empire’s religious and secular elites to adhere t…
This dissertation is a historical and ethnographic study of the Armenian lullaby in Turkey as a genre of intimacy, testimony, and protest. It traces the affective history accumulated on the lullaby that turns it into a resource for remembrance, story-telling, and the transmissio…
The subject of this dissertation is the Commentary on Wisdom of Solomon, by Archbishop Nersēs Lambronac'i (1153–1198), who lived in Cilicia, an important Mediterranean state at the crossroads of East-West trade on the silk road and meeting place of many cultures. Nersēs had clos…
This study examined the relationship between acculturation, acculturative stress and self-worth, as well as level of education and age of entry. There were a total of 124 subjects. The participants were first-generation Armenian Immigrant adults between the ages of 21 and 45 yea…
After the close of World War II, the Soviet Union sponsored a so-called “repatriation” campaign to assist diaspora Armenians in migrating to what was crafted and perceived to be their “true” ancestral homeland – the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR). Between 1946-1949, n…
The purpose of this study was to determine how childhood attachment can affect and present itself in individuals’ adulthood relationships in the Armenian culture. Data were collected from a sample of 10 participants of Armenian descent in semistructured interviews with questions…