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 [Release...

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. [...

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]