Aram Ghoogasian is a cultural historian specializing in Armenian studies. He received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2025. His current project is a study of Armenian print culture in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, focusing both on the Ottoman and Caucasian heartland as well as nodal points scattered across a transregional “print diaspora.” Bringing together the history of books, periodicals, language, literacy, and literature, the book explores, in minute detail, how print culture emerges from printing.

His published and forthcoming work covers topics including Armeno-Turkish cultural production, Armenian-American literature, early Soviet history, and race in the United States.

Publications

“Towards a Bibliography of the Armeno-Turkish Novel,” in [Untitled], ed. Evangelia Balta (forthcoming).

“Alphabet Soup: Turkish and Its Many Scripts,” in The Routledge History of the Ottoman Empire, ed. Meltem Toksöz (London: Routledge, forthcoming).

“Red Zangezur: Class, Race, and the End of the Armenian Civil War.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 26, no. 3 (forthcoming, 2025).

“The Problem with Hybridity: A Critique of Armeno-Turkish Studies,” Middle Eastern Literatures 25, no. 1 (2022): 39–56.

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Armeno-Turkish,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 9, no. 1 (2022): 319–23.

“What is Armenia to Me? Diasporicity in the Works of William Saroyan,” Études arméniennes contemporaines 13 (2021): 183– 205.

“Beyond Jermag yev Sev: A Roundtable on Armenian-American Identity” (with Sophia Armen and Hrag Vartanian), Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal 27 (2020): 94–107.

“How Armenian Americans Became ‘White’: A Brief History,” Ajam Media Collective, August 29, 2017.