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Center for Armenian Studies

Recent News

2025 Leadership Appointments at the II and Its Centers and Programs

New director appointments start July 1, 2025.

Kathryn Babayan Named Director of the Center for Armenian Studies

A professor in the Department of History, Babayan is a social and cultural historian of the early-modern Persianate world.

The University of Michigan’s Center for Armenian Studies promotes the study of the history, language, and culture of Armenia and Armenians and helps prepare a new generation of scholars in the field. Our mission is to provide programmatic support for a forward-thinking curriculum taught by its affiliated faculty, visiting fellows/scholars, and our two endowed chairs in Armenian Studies. Through its work in the United States and abroad, CAS strives to contribute to the scholarly analysis and understanding of the challenges the Armenian people have faced across the globe. More