Gegham Mughnetsyan, Author at The Armenian Weekly

Gegham Mughnetsyan

Gegham Mughnetsyan is the Chitjian Researcher Archivist of the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies where he coordinates the building of Institute’s physical and digital archival and library collections. Gegham works with Armenian diaspora archives and manages Institute’s Displaced Persons Oral History and Documentation Project and the Understanding Independence: Oral Histories of Armenia 1988-96 project. Gegham is also a doctoral student at the Van Hunnick History Department of the University of Southern California researching the histories of Armenians in Los Angeles.

Special Reports

The America that welcomed: Armenian DPs from postwar Europe to LA

March 23, 2026

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Editor’s note: This is the first in a series titled America at 250: An Armenian American Retrospective, running throughout 2026…

Op-Eds

On Language: The Identity-Forming Element

July 20, 2017

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Special for the Armenian Weekly The colloquial language of my hometown, Gyumri, is a concoction of the dialects brought from…

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Far from the Mountaintop

January 16, 2017

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Three years ago, I worked at a polling station at a local election. A lady pulled up to our table…

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My Friend Abo Won a Grammy

July 28, 2014

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How many people can say that they have a friend who has a won a Grammy? My friend Abraham Gumroyan,…

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Gyumri, the Armenia I Left

December 7, 2013

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I was born three years after the earthquake, in the city in ruin, in the so-called “Zone of the Catastrophe.”…

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Where Does My Armenia Stop and My Diaspora Begin?

June 26, 2013

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I was born in Armenia (in Gyumri to be exact) when the Soviet Empire was taking its last breaths and…