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NANEH AWARD FOR GRADUATE RESEARCH IN ARMENIAN STUDIES
This award was created by Professor V. Ara Apkarian and Dr. Alice B. Apkarian to support graduate student research in the Armenian Studies Program. The scholarship is named after Naneh, Armenian Goddess of Wisdom and War in ancient Armenian mythology.
Bedros Torosian is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the History Department. He will begin the writing process of his dissertation, “Whiteness Across Waters: Domesticating Euro-American Racialisms and Masculinities in the Service of Ottoman Imperial and Communal Subalternities,” which examines the origins and formations of new modes of territorially bound ethno-racial and civic linkage in the late Ottoman empire as it transitioned from an autocracy to a constitutional monarchy on the eve of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and up to World War I. The study investigates the intersectionality of patriotism with commanding hierarchies of race and gender operating in a world dominated by asymmetrical domestic and global power relations. Drawing on periodicals in Arabic, Armenian, and Ottoman Turkish printed in the empire, the US, Paris, and Egypt as well as travel documents, migrant correspondences, and political party papers, Torosian argues that patriotism overlapped with visions of Ottoman citizenship, territorialized political being, and racialized belonging to protect multi-layered individual, communal, and state sovereignties
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