2026-27 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian Studies
About
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.
