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The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) joins with other Armenian and non-Armenian groups in condemning the attacks carried out today by Azerbaijan against the Armenians in Artsakh / Nagorno-Karabakh.

Historian Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian, a pioneer of Armenian, women’s, and interdisciplinary studies, passed away on her 93rd birthday, July 9, 2023, in Portola Valley, California.

Over the course of six decades, no individual did more to shape Armenian Studies, and certainly no one has done has much to advance and give legitimacy to the study of modern Armenian history, as Richard Hovannisian. The void left by his passing is enormous. We are fortunate, however, that the legacy of his life and work is even larger; and his legacy will endure.

In conjunction with the celebratory event NAASR held on May 6, 2023, marking the appointment of Christina Maranci as the third holder of the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University, we are devoting this Library Treasures installment to materials from NAASR’s own organizational archives pertaining to this organization’s pioneering effort to establish the first chair in Armenian Studies in the U.S.—or, indeed, anywhere in the Armenian diaspora in North America—focusing on the years from 1954 to the appointment of the first chairholder in 1969.

The Cummings Foundation grant will be used to create an online curated genocide resource center featuring leading documentary resources suitable for users at a high school level education and to promote the new online genocide resource center to librarians and schoolteachers within the communities of Essex, Middlesex and Suffolk counties.