Bedros Torosian

Dr. Bedros Torosian is a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Irvine, in 2024. His research investigates the intersection of race, gender, nationalism and migration in early-twentieth-century Ottoman diasporic communities in the United States. He is currently working on his book project, Whiteness Across Waters, that examines the various streams of colorblind Ottoman transatlantic racialization among Armenian and Syrian immigrants in the United States during the 1908 Young Turk Revolution.
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Deconstructing a color-blind Ottoman Armenian story with race and whiteness in the United States

Studying interactions between Armenians, race and whiteness is a challenging historical subject. Some may deem “race” and “whiteness” irrelevant presentist…

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