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Sebouh David Aslanian (born)

Associate Professor & Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History

Classes Taught:

History 105B - Middle East, 1100-1700: From the Crusades and Mamluks to the Age of the Gunpowder Empires, History 107A - Armenia and Armenians in World History: From Ethnogenesis to the Eleventh Century CE, History 107B - Armenia and Armenians in World History: From the Medieval to the Early Modern Period, History 107C - Armenian and Armenians in World History: Empire, Diaspora, and Nation-State, History 191F-1/201J-1 - Port Cities and Printers: An Introduction to Early Modern World and Armenian History, 1500-1800, History 191F/201J - From Venice and Istanbul to Isfahan and Madras: Explorations in Early Modern Armenian History, 1500-1800, History 596 - Paper Instruments and Networks in Early Modern Trade: The Role of the Commenda and the Bill of Exchange in Early Modern Indian Ocean and Julfan Trade, 1600-1800.

Endowed Chair Established by the Armenian Educational Foundation Ph.D. with Distinction Columbia University, Masters (New School for Social Research) & BA McGill University

PUBLICATIONS

https://mirrorspectator.com/2020/05/09/sebouh-aslanian-appointed-director-of-ucla-armenian-studies-center/

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520282179/from-the-indian-ocean-to-the-mediterranean

Publications
http://hpj.asj-oa.am/1462/ Հնդկահայ վաճառականության պատմությունից (XVIII դ. սկիզբ) Ասլանյան, Սեպուհ (2006

https://history.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/jughayets_i_vacharakanner_ev_evropakan_a.pdf

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa

reviews:

In his book From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, Sebouh Aslanian also focuses on the agency of local actors although in his case that of Armenian merchants in the Middle East. The research question that guides his analysis is the manner in which the global trade network of Julfan Armenians worked in disparate parts of the world, ruled by different empires over time. In doing so, Aslanian takes issue with "the Eurocentric impression that the driving force of the Indian Ocean has been the crusading Europeans" and with "the narrowly parochial concerns of national(ist) historiography" (pp. 5-6). His focus enables him to successfully navigate beyond state-centered explanations predicated on formal institutions such as courts, to develop the concept of "circulation societies" that form around a nodal center in relation to object, economic capital, and information. It is ironic, however, that the global trade network of Julfan Armenian merchants ultimately collapses due to state intervention; the Iranian state's looting and over-taxation of the nodal center in Julfa destroys the network. Once again, the Eurocentric hegemony in knowledge production is destabilized through an emphasis on local actors and on the particular meanings and actions they produced over time.

reviews https://www.jstor.org/stable/43299108

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43303536

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23557898

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24455499

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23427894