Jennifer Manoukian
2026-27 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian Studies
Research interests: Ottoman Armenian social and intellectual history, language history, language ideologies, language practices, language contact.
Jennifer Manoukian is a historian of language. Her work explores the language practices and ideologies of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and post-genocide diaspora. She earned her PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles; her MA in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies from Columbia University; and her BA in French and Middle Eastern Studies from Rutgers University. She is the author of Purist Pursuits: Language, Global Ideas, and the Creation of Western Armenian in the Ottoman Empire and two book-length literary translations from Western Armenian: The Gardens of Silihdar by Zabel Yessayan and The Candidate by Zareh Vorpouni. She is also the author of a number of articles and the co-founder Gesaria Armenian Research and Academic Services.
Daniel Ohanian
2026-27 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian History
Daniel Ohanian is a historian of Armenians in the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on a cultural history of Catholic-Armenian contact in the c. 1700 Mediterranean and on the eighteenth-century travelogue of a merchant-turned-priest named Hovhannes Tovmajanian. Daniel's research has been supported by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, among others, and has been published in Turcica: revue d'études turques, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, and Genocide Studies International. He is director of research at the Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education and co-founder of Gesaria Armenian Research and Academic Services. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds a BA and MAs from York University in Canada and Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey.
