Talar Chahinian lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, where she is also Visiting Faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature. She is the author of Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse University Press, 2023). She co-edits Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies and contributes regularly to the Armenian-language literary magazine Pakin.
Sossie Kasbarian is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling. She is co-editor (with Anthony Gorman) of Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualising Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Diaspora - A Journal of Transnational Studies. She is currently working on a monograph entitled The Armenian Middle East – diasporic remnants, resilience and reconfigurations.
Tsolin Nalbantian is Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History at Leiden University (the Netherlands), the author of Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon Their Own (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and co-editor of Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon (Stanford University Press, 2022). She is also the series co-editor of “Critical, Connected Histories” (Leiden University Press).
