Professors Talinn Grigor and co-author Houri Berberian, Professor of History and Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies and the Director of the Center for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, have launched a national book tour for their new publication The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and The Making of Iranian Modernity (1860-1979) (Stanford University Press, 2025). Their first book presentation and signing took place on Mar. 6 at UC Irvine and was sponsored by UC Irvine’s Center for Armenian Studies, followed by another on Mar. 8 at the Homenetmen Glendale Arahat.

Professors Grigor and Berberian will present book talks at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Columbia, Princeton University, MIT and Clark University with a finale at UC Davis. Stay tuned for details on these upcoming events and ways to attend.

The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and The Making of Iranian Modernity (1860-1979) offers the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women’s organizations, Professors Grigor and Berberian have traced minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran’s central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patrical institutions of church and political parties. Grigor and Berberian relied of archival, textual, visual and oral history sources to challenge conventional notions of “the archive” and transformed silences and  absences into audible and visual presences.