Houri Berberian

Houri Berberian is Professor of History, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, and Director of the Center for Armenian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on late nineteenth/early twentieth-century Armenian history, especially revolutionary movements and women and gender.

Her books include Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: “The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland” (2001); the multiple award-winning Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (2019); and Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography (2018), coedited with Touraj Daryaee.

Her most recent book is The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity (March 2025), coauthored with Talinn Grigor.