History Department

Education: 

Ph.D., History, University of California, Irvine

M.A., History, University of California, Irvine

M.A., History, American University of Beirut

B.A., History, American University of Beirut 

Research Focus: 

Racial Mobilities in Arab and Armenian diasporas, Transatlantic Ottoman racial formations and color-blind whiteness, Ottomanism, gender and masculinities, ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East, American and world history.

About: 

Bedros Torosian is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis. He specializes in the history of ethnoreligious minorities in the modern Middle East through the optics of gender, race, nationalism, and transatlantic migration. Taking an interethnic connected histories approach, his first book project, Whiteness Across Waters, uncovers contested varieties of Armenian and Syrian racialization in the early-twentieth-century United States set against Americanization and Turkification. 

Articles:

“Ottoman Armenian Racialization in an American Space (1908-1914),” Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies 8 2 (2021): 31-58. https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/278

"Deconstructing a color-blind Ottoman Armenian Story with race and whiteness in the United States," Armenian Weekly, October 1, 2024.
https://armenianweekly.com/2024/10/01/deconstructing-a-color-blind-ottoman-armenian-story-with-race-and-whiteness-in-the-united-states/