Aslanian Named Armenian Chair at UCLA

An award-winning young historian has been selected to fill a chair originally occupied by retired UCLA historian Richard Hovannisian, who is widely regarded as the world’s dean of Armenian studies.

Sebouh David Aslanian, who joined UCLA’s department of history in September 2011 as an assistant professor of history, was installed May 22 in the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair. The chair was established by the Armenian Educational Foundation in 1986.

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For Dr. Aslanian’s inaugural lecture of May 22, 2012, outlining his vision of the field and the chair, click here for link to his essay “The Marble of Armenian History: Or Armenian History as World History” and here for a more sustained discussion of some of the same issues.