Daniel Ohanian

Daniel Ohanian

Graduate Student

Email: dohanian@ucla.edu

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Biography

Daniel Ohanian is a PhD candidate specializing in early modern and modern Ottoman-Armenian history. He is the co-founder of Gesaria Armenian Research and Academic Services.

Dissertation title: “Church of Armenia, Church of Rome: Faith, Print, and Power in Ottoman-Armenian History, 1688–1717”

Field of Study

Middle East

Awards & Grants

Project Grant 

  • Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal) grant (with M. Erdem Kabadayı) for the research project “Recovering Armenians in Late Ottoman Istanbul and Making Ottoman-Era Population Data Available for All” (2015–2018) (click here for results)

Major Tuition and Research Funding 

  • UCLA Mangasar M. Mangasarian Scholarship (2020–2021)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award (2019–2021)
  • Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Armenian Studies Scholarship (2019–2021)
  • UCLA Kaspar and Siroon Hovannisian Fellowship (2018–2019, 2019–2020)
  • Armenian Students’ Association of America Scholarship Grant (2017–2018)
  • UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program Stipend (2017)
  • UCLA Department of History Fellowship (2016–2021)
  • Istanbul Bilgi University Tuition Waiver (2013–2016)

Conference Presentations

Select Conference Presentations 

  • “If There Was No Millet System, What Was There?” Western Ottomanists’ Workshop. November 2022. UCLA and University of Southern California.
  • “An Autobiography Written in Captivity: Awetikʿ Tʿōkhatʿetsʿi’s Account of His Own Life, c. 1657–1710.” Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). November 2021.
  • “An Ancient Hero in Modern Times: Remembering General Vardan Mamikonean (d. 451) in 1909 Istanbul.” Entangled Encounters: Antiquity and Modernity in Armenian Studies conference. March 2019. Harvard University.
  • “The Potential and Challenges of Studying the Population of c. 1905–c. 1909 Istanbul—with a Case Study.” Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure meeting. May 2016. University of Cambridge.

Advisor(s)

Sebouh Aslanian (chair), Stefania Tutino, James Gelvin, Tijana Krstić, Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Degrees

  • CPhil in History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2019)
  • MA in History, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey (2016)
  • MA in History, York University, Canada (2014)
  • Honours BA in History and French Studies, York University, Canada (2012)