Houri Berberian: The Changing Roles of Armenian Women in New Julfa

Produced by AGBU WebTalks Dr. Houri Berberian explains how the Armenian women of New Julfa came to dominate household finances in the 17-18th centuries, in a society where most women were otherwise confined to more traditional gender roles. Dr. Houri Berberian is Professor of History, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, and Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of a number of articles and a book, Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: “The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland” (2001). Her next book on Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds, 1905-1911 is forthcoming with UC Press.