Daniel Ohanian
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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”
Publications
- With Z. Mehmet Başkurt and M. Erdem Kabadayı. “An Historical Geographic Information System for Ottoman Studies: The c. 1907 Ottoman Census and Armenian Settlement in Istanbul.” Turcica. Revue d’études turques—peuples, langues, cultures, États 51 (2020): 255–283.
- With others. “Ottoman Istanbul and Its Armenian Inhabitants: Population Data and Maps, 1830s–c. 1907.” Houshamadyan: A Project to Reconstruct Ottoman Armenian Town and Village Life. Last updated 6 May 2019. Available in Turkish as “Osmanlı’nın İstanbul’u ve Ermeni Sakinleri: Nüfus Verileri ve Haritalar, 1830’lar–1907 civarı” and in Armenian as “Օսմանեան Պոլիսը եւ իր հայ բնակիչները. ժողովրդական տուեալներ եւ քարտէսներ (1830-ականներէն 1907-ի շուրջ).”
- “Collaboration in Ottoman Governance: The c. 1907 Imperial Census and the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Istanbul.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 4, no. 2 (2017): 365–380.
- “Sympathy and Exclusion: The Migration of Child and Women Survivors of the Armenian Genocide from the Eastern Mediterranean to Canada, 1923–1930.” Genocide Studies International 11, no. 2 (2017): 197–215.
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.