Jennifer Manoukian

Jennifer Manoukian is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research explores the ways Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the post-Genocide diaspora used and thought about language. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2023 and is currently at work on a book project that examines the impact of purism on the creation of Western Armenian in the nineteenth century.
History

Young Armenians in 1930s America speak: Language, identity and the first stirrings of the Armenian Weekly

Special Issue: 90 — Informing, Connecting, Inspiring The Armenian Weekly, October 2024 In June 1932, 19-year-old Hayastan Seferian of Toledo,…

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Op-Eds

Zareh Vorpouni: The Renegade of Late 20th Century Western Armenian Literature

Special for the Armenian Weekly Zareh Vorpouni was a lone ranger. In a corpus that spanned genre and era, he…

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Culture

The Child of a Refugee

By Siran Seza The following story was written by Siran Seza in April 1946. Seza was the penname of Siranoush…

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Special Reports

An Encounter with Djemal Pasha

Special for the Armenian Weekly By Missak Vassilian Translated by Jennifer Manoukian The following is the account of a 16-year-old…

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Culture

Srpouhi Dussap: Women’s Inactivity

Translated by Jennifer Manoukian The following is a translation of an article by Srpouhi Dussap, published in August 1882. Srpouhi…

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Opinion

Dzarougian: ‘Ethereal Aleppo’

Translated by Jennifer Manoukian The following passages are taken from Antranig Dzarougian’s 1980 memoir, Ethereal Aleppo (Երազային Հալէպը). One of…

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Opinion

Yessayan: Towards Cilicia

The following is an excerpt from Amid the Ruins (1911), writer Zabel Yessayan’s account of the aftermath of the 1909…

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Culture

Zohrab: The Poturlı

This story by Krikor Zohrab was originally published in Massis on May 20th 1900 and later compiled in Krikor Zohrab’s…

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