Society for Armenian Studies Podcast

Vartan Matiossian (Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Church, NY) The Color of Choice: The Armenians and the Politics of Race in the United States and Germany (1890–1945) (Brill, Armenian History and Culture Series, No. 2, 2025) Interviewed by Thomas Simsarian Dolan (Emory University) [Released March 4, 2026]  

Dr. Elyse Semerdjian (Clark University), Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide (Stanford University, Press, 2023) Interviewed by Bedros Torosian (University of California, Davis) [Released September 15, 2025]

Dr. Houri Berberian and Dr. Talinn Grigor, The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979 (Stanford University Press, 2025) Interviewed by Bedros Torosian (University of California, Davis) [Released August 25, 2025]

Dr. Talar Chahinian (University of California, Irvine), Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse University Press, 2023)   Interviewed by Bedros Torosian (University of California, Davis)   [Released July 14, 2025]

Prof. Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century (Stanford University Press, 2022) Interviewed by Michael Bobelian (Author and Journalist) [Released June 10, 2022]

SAS Podcast no. 58 – Satenig Batwagan Toufanian Prof. Satenig Batwagan Toufanian (Professeur de philosophie chez Ministère chargé de l'Éducation nationale), Rendez-vous à Madras (Ed. Thaddée, 2020) and Dileep Karanth (Illinois Wesleyan University, translator of the novel into English) Interviewed by Lucine Batwagan   [Released March 23, 2022]

Vera Sahakyan, PhD Student and Researcher at Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts-Madenataran, Մշոյ Բուլանըք գաւառի հայաբնակ գիւղերն ըստ Մկրտիչ Ա. Խրիմեան կաթողիկոսին ուղղուած նամակների [The Armenian Populated Villages of the District of Bulanık in Mush according to the Letters sent to Catholicos Mgrditch A. Khrimian]. Yerevan: Matenadaran, 2021. Interviewed by Arpik Sahakyan [Released November 2, 2021]

Alakananda Nag (Photographer, Filmmaker, Creative Director), Armenians of Calcutta (Calcutta: Alakananda Nag, 2021) Interviewed by Nareg Seferian (School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech). [Released September 26, 2021]

Dr.  Ümit Kurt, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021). Interviewed by Varak Ketsemanian (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University). [Released August 11, 2021]

Prof. Joachim J. Savelsberg, Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2021) Interviewed by Dr. Asya Darbinyan (Clark University) [July 1, 2021]

Dr. Christopher Sheklian (Radboud University), Themes in Armenian Studies: Armenian Liturgy and the Politics of Belonging in Turkey Interviewed by Nora Lessersohn (University College London) [Released June 5, 2021]

Narek Manukyan (Paradigma Education Foundation), Guidebook on History Teaching: Why, How? [In Armenian] (Yerevan: Paradigma Educational Foundation) Interviewed by Varak Ketsemanian (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University)

Dr. David Zakarian, Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Armenian Texts, Armenian Texts and Studies, Volume: 4, Brill 2021 Interviewed by Erin Piñon (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University) [Released May 11, 2021]

Prof. Vahram Shemmassian (California State University, Northridge), The Armenians of Musa Dagh: From Obscurity to Genocide Resistance and Fame 1840-1915 (Fresno, CA: The Press, California State University, Fresno, 2020) Interviewed by Prof. Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) [April 21, 2021]

Dr. Khatchig Mouradian (Library of Congress), The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1918 (Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2021) Interviewed by Dr. Asya Darbinyan (Clark University) [April 8, 2021]

Dr. Haig Utidjian (Charles University, Prague), Tntesean and the Music of the Armenian Hymnal (Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2017) Interviewed by Dr. Brigitta Davidjants (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) (March 3, 2021)

Prof. Khachig Tölölyan (Wesleyan University), Reflections on Armenian/Diaspora Studies VI Interviewed by Dr. Vahe Sahakyan (University of Michigan, Dearborn) [February 9, 2021]

Richard Antaramian, Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020) Interviewed by Dr. Dzovinar Derderian (American University of Armenia) [January 19, 2021]

Joanne Laycock and Francesca Piana (eds.) Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020) Interviewed by Dr. Asya Darbinyan (Clark University) [November 5, 2020]

Dr. Stephen Badalyan Riegg, Russia's Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2020) Interviewed by Dr. Asya Darbinyan (Clark University) [September 16, 2020]

Profs. Stephan H Astourian and Raymond H Kévorkian (eds.), Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State (New York: Berghahn, 2020) Interviewed by Asya Darbinyan (Clark University) [September 1, 2020]

Prof. Charlie Laderman (Kings College, London), Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) Interviewed by Anna Aleksanyan (Ph.D. Student, Clark University) [August 7, 2020]

Dr. Levon Avdoyan, Reflections on Armenian Studies V. Interviewed by Nareg Seferian (School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech) The aim of the Reflections on Armenian Studies series is twofold: to interview senior figures about their experience in and contribution to the field, and create a digital archive for future generations in the field.  [July 17, 2020]

Prof. Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Retired), Reflections on Armenian Studies IV Interviewed by Dr. Dzovinar Derderian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) The aim of the Reflections on Armenian Studies series is twofold: to interview senior figures about their experience in and contribution to the field, and create a digital archive for future generations in the field. [July 8, 2020]  

Prof. George Bournoutian (Iona College) Reflections on Armenian Studies III Interviewed by Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno) The aim of the Reflections on Armenian Studies series is twofold: to interview senior figures about their experience in and contribution to the field, and create a digital archive for future generations in the field. [June 23, 2020]

Prof. Sergio La Porta (California State University, Fresno) Reflections on Armenian Studies II Interviewed by Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno) The aim of the Reflections on Armenian Studies series is twofold: to interview senior figures about their experience in and contribution to the field, and create a digital archive for future generations in the field. [June 8, 2020]

Prof. Richard G. Hovannisian, Reflections on Armenian Studies Interviewed by Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno) The aim of the Reflections on Armenian Studies series is twofold: to interview senior figures about their experience in and contribution to the field, and create a digital archive for future generations in the field. [May 12, 2020]

Prof. Carolyn J. Dean, The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) Interviewed by Asya Darbinyan (Stockton University) [March 26, 2020]

Dr. Dzovinar Derderian, Nation, Media, and Empire: Voices from Ottoman Van Interviewed by Nora Lessersohn (University College London) [February 24, 2020]

Prof. Tsolin Nalbantian, Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)  Interviewed by Varak Ketsemanian (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University) [December 3, 2019]    

Dr. Rubina Peroomian, My Father, A Man of Courage and Perseverance, A Survivor of Stalin’s Gulag (Glendale, Calif: Rubina Peroomian Minassian, 2017)  Interviewed by Vahe Peroomian (University of Southern California) [October 17, 2019]

Dr. David Gutman, The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915: Sojourners, Smugglers and Dubious Citizens (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019) Interviewed by Nora Lessersohn (University College London) [September 17, 2019]

Dr. Satenig Batwagan Toufanian, Le Piège de L'orgueil Un Projet Républicain en Orient au XVIIIe Siècle (Paris: Presses de l’inalco, 2018)  Interviewed by Gérard Malkassian (Professor of Philosophy, Paris) [September 5, 2019]

Prof. Houri Berberian, Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2019) Interviewed by Varak Ketsemanian (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University) [August 15, 2019]

Dr. Vahagn Avedian,  Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide (London: Routledge, 2018) Interviewed by Dr. Suren Manukyan (Yerevan State University and Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute) [July 31, 2019]  

Prof. Hratch Tchilingirian (Oxford University), Ermeni Kilisesi: Kısa Bir Giriş [The Armenian Church: A Short Introduction] Translated from English by Lora Sarı (Istanbul: Aras Publications, 2019) Interviewed by Ani K. Shahinian (D.Phil. student, Oxford University) [July 11, 2019]

Dr. Vahé Tachjian (Houshamadyan Project) Daily Life in the Abyss: Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918 (Berghahn Books, NY/London, 2017)  Interviewed by G.M. Goshgarian (Translator) [June 27, 2019]

Prof. Keith David Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis) Bread from Stones The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism (Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015) Interviewed by Harout Ekmanian (Lawyer and Journalist) [May 28, 2019]

Profs. Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno) Western Armenian in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Approaches (Fresno, CA: The Press at Fresno State, Fall 2018) Jesse Arlen (Ph.D. Student, UCLA) interviewing contributors Hagop Kouloujian (University of California, Los Angeles) and Shushan Karapetian (University of Southern California) [May 17, 2019]

Prof. Jonathan Conlin (University of Southampton) Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man (Profile Books; Main edition, 2019) Interviewed by Marc A. Mamigonian (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research [NAASR]) [Released May 9, 2019]

Prof. Christina Maranci (Tufts University) Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Turhout, Brepolis Publishers, 2015) Interviewed by Alison Vacca (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) [Released May 2, 2019]

Sato Moughalian (Musician and Author) Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian (Stanford, California: Redwood Press, 2019) Interviewed by Erin Piñon (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University) [Released April 23, 2019]

Dr. Vicken Cheterian (Webster University-Geneva) Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide (Oxford University Press, 2015) Interviewed by Varak Ketsemanian (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University). [Released April 17, 2019]

Prof. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2019) Interviewed by Erin Piñon (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University) [Released April 5, 2019]

Dr. Jennifer M. Dixon, Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018) Interviewed by Marc A. Mamigonian (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research [NAASR]). [Released March 29, 2019]

Dr. Boris Adjemian  (Director, Nubarian Library, Paris) La fanfare du négus les Arméniens en Ethiopie (XIXe – XXe siècles) (Paris Éd. de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales 2013). Interviewed by Anna Aleksanyan (Ph.D. Student, Clark University). [Released March 19, 2019]

Dr. Nora Nercessian (Retired, Harvard University), The City of Orphans: Relief Workers, Commissars and the “Builders of the New Armenia” Alexandropol/Leninakan 1919-1931 (Hollis Publishing, 2016) Interviewed by Asya Darbinyan (Ph.D. Student, Clark University) [Released March 7, 2019]

Prof. Anna Ohanyan (Stonehill College) Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond (Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2018) Interviewed by Richard B. Finnegan (Stonehill College) [Released February 28, 2019]

Dr. Sona Haroutyunian (Ca’Foscari University of Venice) Հայոց ցեղասպանության արձագանքներն Իտալիայում. 1915 [The Echoes of the Armenian Genocide in Italy. 1915] (Երևան, ԵՊՀ հրատ., 2018). Interviewed (in Armenian) by Hayk Hambardzumyan (Yerevan State University and Shoghakat TV, Yerevan) [Released February 2, 2019]

Avedis Hadjian (Journalist) Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey (I.B. Tauris, 2018) Interviewed by Ani Kasparian (University of Michigan, Dearborn). [Released February 5, 2019]