Obituaries
Armenian studies pioneer Mary A. Kilbourne Matossian passes away
By Lou Ann Matossian
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Historian Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian, a pioneer of Armenian, women’s and interdisciplinary studies, passed away on her 93rd birthday, July 9, 2023, in Portola Valley, California.
Her groundbreaking 1962 study, The Impact of Soviet Policies in Armenia, stood virtually alone for two decades as the main Anglophone source on Soviet s
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Dr. Matossian was my teacher as a graduate student at the University of Maryland in 1970. She was kind, thoughtful, challenging and brilliant as a teacher. She was the first teacher who really taught me about the complexities and the critical importance of historiography as a discipline. I will always remember and admire her with gratitude.
Robert Gould, PhD.
Bryn Mawr College.
Matossian truly was a pioneer, and her study on Soviet Armenia remains a classic in the field. In fact, her work served as an important departure point for my own research on Anastas Mikoyan and Armenia’s Soviet past in the archives of Moscow and Yerevan. She will be missed. RIP.