Book Presentation

The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979

Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan

Program

14 nov. 2025 4:00 PM

Weiser Hall 555
500 Church St, Ann Arbor MI 48109

Michigan - United States

With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women's organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran's central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties.

Houri Berberian is Professor of History, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, and Director of the Center for Armenian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on late nineteenth/early twentieth-century transimperial Armenian history, especially revolutionary movements and women and gender. Her books include Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911 (2001) and the multiple award-winning Roving Revolutionaries (2019).

Talinn Grigor is Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on 18th- to 20th-century architectural and art histories through postcolonial, race, feminist, and critical theories grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, Armenia, and Parsi India. Her books include the winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, The Persian Revival (2021), Contemporary Iranian Art (2014), and Building Iran (2009).

Cosponsored by:

• Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS), U-M

• Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS), U-M

• National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

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