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Sebouh David Aslanian was born in Ethiopia and received his Ph.D. (with distinction) from Columbia University in 2007. He holds the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian history at the department of history at UCLA. His recently published From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011) was the recipient of the PEN USA literary award for the most outstanding first book of the year from UC Press. It was also awarded the Middle East Studies Association’s (MESA) Houshang Pourshariati Prize for best book in Iranian Studies for 2011.