This survey course will cover the period from the incorporation of most of the Armenian plateau into the Ottoman Empire to the present day.

Until recently Armenian historiography has approached the era beginning with the end of the Armenian Cilician Kingdom and the rise of the Ottoman Empire as the Dark Ages. However, in this time, cultural, literary, social, economic, and political transformations occurred among Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Iran, and later the Russian Empire. Armenians engaged in global trade and socio-cultural transformations from India to Venice and beyond. This course will focus on the different iterations of Armenian identity in various imperial settings, diasporan communities as well as in relation to the contemporary Republic of Armenia. We will examine the changing meanings and roles of Armenian identity across space and time. Instructor bio: Dzovinar Derderian received her PhD in 2019 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the Department of Middle East Studies. Focusing on 19th-century Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, her research explores the various circular processes such as migration, communication and participatory politics through which provincial Armenians engaged in national and imperial modernization. Both in her research and teaching she is interested in exposing the dispersed ways in which power functions and inequalities are shaped. Before coming to UC Berkeley, she taught World History, Armenian and Middle East history courses at the American University of Armenia, at the University of California, Irvine and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Course is not repeatable for credit.

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