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Sebouh Aslanian selected for Armenian chair at UCLA
May 18, 2012 - 11:14 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - 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, will be installed
May 22 in the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair.
"It was a challenge to find a scholar who could one day fill Richard
Hovannisian's large shoes," said David Myers, chair of UCLA's history
department. "But we believe that Sebouh Aslanian is that person, and
we are delighted and honored to have him."
Aslanian is the author of "From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean:
The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants From New Julfa"
(University of California Press, 2011), a history of the emergence and
growth of a global trade network operated by Armenian merchants.
He is now working on a microhistory of an Armenian merchant from
Julfa, Marcara Avachintz, who in 1666 was appointed by Louis XIV and
his minister of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, as the first regional
director in the Indian Ocean and Iran of the newly created French East
India Company. He is also is working on the history of the Santa
Catharina, an Armenian-freighted ship that was seized by the British
navy in 1748 against the backdrop of the War of the Austrian
Succession. Using more than 2,000 pieces of family and mercantile
correspondence that were on the ship at the time of its capture,
Aslanian plans to illuminate the larger history of globalization in
the Indian Ocean arena during the 17th and 18th centuries.
In addition, Aslanian is gathering material for a third book, on the
history of diasporic Armenian print culture across a range of areas,
including Venice, Amsterdam and Madras. At UCLA, Aslanian has taught a
sweeping, two-quarter survey of Armenian history from its genesis to
the 18th century. He has also taught a seminar in one of his areas of
specialization - the early modern period of Armenian history (1500 to
1800).
Aslanian was selected for the chair in April 2011 after a one-year
international search.
"It's a wonderful honor to have this position," Aslanian said. "I'm
extremely grateful, and it's an excellent fit because I get to do both
things I can't live without - researching and teaching."
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/108016/
May 18, 2012 - 11:14 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - 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, will be installed
May 22 in the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair.
"It was a challenge to find a scholar who could one day fill Richard
Hovannisian's large shoes," said David Myers, chair of UCLA's history
department. "But we believe that Sebouh Aslanian is that person, and
we are delighted and honored to have him."
Aslanian is the author of "From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean:
The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants From New Julfa"
(University of California Press, 2011), a history of the emergence and
growth of a global trade network operated by Armenian merchants.
He is now working on a microhistory of an Armenian merchant from
Julfa, Marcara Avachintz, who in 1666 was appointed by Louis XIV and
his minister of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, as the first regional
director in the Indian Ocean and Iran of the newly created French East
India Company. He is also is working on the history of the Santa
Catharina, an Armenian-freighted ship that was seized by the British
navy in 1748 against the backdrop of the War of the Austrian
Succession. Using more than 2,000 pieces of family and mercantile
correspondence that were on the ship at the time of its capture,
Aslanian plans to illuminate the larger history of globalization in
the Indian Ocean arena during the 17th and 18th centuries.
In addition, Aslanian is gathering material for a third book, on the
history of diasporic Armenian print culture across a range of areas,
including Venice, Amsterdam and Madras. At UCLA, Aslanian has taught a
sweeping, two-quarter survey of Armenian history from its genesis to
the 18th century. He has also taught a seminar in one of his areas of
specialization - the early modern period of Armenian history (1500 to
1800).
Aslanian was selected for the chair in April 2011 after a one-year
international search.
"It's a wonderful honor to have this position," Aslanian said. "I'm
extremely grateful, and it's an excellent fit because I get to do both
things I can't live without - researching and teaching."
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/108016/