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New Armenian Community Projects Funded by Mass Humanities Grants

(Northampton, MA – Sept. 22, 2022) — Mass Humanities announced today it has awarded $713,876 in Expand Massachusetts Stories (EMS) grants to 42 cultural nonprofit organizations across the Commonwealth, including to NAASR and the Armenians of Whitinsville. The funded projects will surface new narratives about the people and ideas that shape Massachusetts. The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) was awarded $9,570 for their project, Exploring Hybrid Identities of Armenian-Americans in Mass. The project will support a series of public programs on Armenian- American identities and how they interact with the diverse community of Massachusetts. The project will...

Armenians Together

The Greater Boston Armenian-American community strongly supports:

The inalienable right of the Armenians of the Republic of Artsakh to self-determination and a peaceful life in their ancestral homeland
The inviolability of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia

NAASR Statement Regarding the September 13, 2022, Attack on Armenia

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) joins with many others around the world who have expressed their concern about and condemnation of the attack by the Republic of Azerbaijan on Armenia’s territory, including the civilian population, on September 13, 2022. ... As an organization dedicated to scholarship and education, we call on all parties to condemn this act of aggression and to seek diplomatic solutions to this conflict.

NAASR Receives NEH Preservation Assistance Grant

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is proud to announce that it is a recipient of a Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller Institutions from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of its efforts to safeguard the important and rare holdings in its Edward and Helen Mardigian Library. The grant will support a general preservation assessment and the purchase of rehousing supplies.

NAASR 68th Annual Assembly of Members ~ Saturday, November 5, 2022 ~ On Zoom

Featured Speaker: Dr. Asya Darbinyan, Visiting Professor in Armenian Genocide Studies, Strassler Center, Clark University, presents “The Russian Empire and Armenian Refugees (1914-1917): New Insights from the Archives”

The general public is invited to attend via NAASR's YouTube channel Armenian Studies. NAASR Members, please register on Zoom in order to vote.

NAASR TO PRESENT FIRST ANNUAL VARTAN GREGORIAN LECTURE

The annual NAASR lecture bearing his name will present cutting-edge Armenian Studies scholarship that intersects with some of the many areas that interested Vartan Gregorian as a scholar, such as Armenians in the Near East and the Muslim world, particular Iran; books and libraries; immigration; education; and more.

2021 Sona Aronian Armenian Studies Book Prize Winners

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is pleased to announce the 2021 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies, jointly awarded to Dr. Stephen Badalyan Riegg for Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914 (Cornell University Press, 2020) and Dr. Marc David Baer for Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (Indiana University Press, 2020); and to Nareg Seferian for his translation of the novel Mayda (Մայտա) by Srpuhi Dussap (Սրբուհի Տիւսաբ) (Armenian International Women’s Association Press). The 2021 awards are for books with a 2020 publication date.