Contact Information:
Iona College, Department of History
715 North Ave
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Phone: (914) 633-2014
Fax: (914) 633-2153
Email: gbournoutian@iona.edu

Office Hours:
Monday 9:30 am - 10:45 am and 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Education:
A.A. - Los Angeles City College.
BA - University of California at Los Angeles.
MA - University of California at Los Angeles.
C.Phil. - University of California at Los Angeles.
PhD - University of California at Los Angeles, 1976.

Courses Taught:
HST 105. Topics in Western Civilization.
HST 106. Topics in Non-Western Civilization.
HST 370. Development of Modern Russia.
HST 372. History of Modern Europe.
HST 385. Modern Middle East.
HST 393. A History of South Asia.
HST 490. Colloquium in History.
HST 700. The Heritage and Challenges of Historical Research.
HST 703. Topics in Non-Western History: A Comparative Review.
HST 782. The Middle Easy from the Ottoman Empire to European Hegemony.
HST 784. Indian Civilization.

Teaching Interest:
Russia.
The Islamic World.

Research Interests and Scholarships:
Iran.
Armenia.
Russia.
Georgia.
Azerbaijan.

Publications:
- Eastern Armenia in the Last Decade of Persian Rule, 1807-1828 (UCLA, 1982).
- The Khanate of Erevan Under Qajar Rule, 1795-1828 (Columbia U., 1992).
- The History of the Armenian People, 2 vols (Mazda, 1993-1994, 1997), three editions.
- A History of Qarabagh [Karabagh]: An Annotated Translation of Mirza Jamal Javanshir Quarabaghi's Tarikh-e Qarabagh with an Introductory Commentary (Mazda Academic Press, 1994).
- Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, 1797-1889: A Documentary Record with Introduction and Commentary (Mazda, 1998).
- The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete: Annotated Translation from the Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary (Mazda, 1999).
- Abraham of Erevan's History of the Wars 1721-1836/38: Annotated Translation with Introductory Notes (Mazda, 1999).
- Armenians and Russia, 1626-1796: A Documentary Record with Introduction and Commentary (Mazda, 2001).
- A Concise History of the Armenian People (Mazda, 2003), two editions. New edition (Mazda, 2004).
- The Journal of Zak`aria of K`anak`er: Annotated Translation from the Critical Text, with Introduction and Commentary (Mazda, 2004).
- "The Ethnic Composition and the Socio-Economic Condition of Eastern Armenia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," in R. Suny ed. Transcaucasia: Nationalism and Social Change (U. Michigan, 1983).
- "The Arts in Early Post-Revolutionary Russia: The Posters of Vladimir Mayakovsky," in D. Castroita, ed. Artistic Strategy and the Rhetoric of Power (Southern Illinois U., 1986).
- "Eastern Armenia from the Seventeenth Century to the Russian Annexation," in R. Hovannisian, ed. The Armenian People, Vol. II (St. Martin's, 1997).
- "Armenians in Nineteenth-Century Iran," in C. Chaqueri, ed. The Armenians of Iran (Harvard U., 1998).
- "A.S. Griboedov," Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia U.).
- "Abraham of Crete," Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia U.).
- "Abraham of Erevan," Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia U.).
- "Ebrahim Khalil Khan Javansir," Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia U.).
- "The Persian Khanate of Erevan," Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia U.).
- "Modern Erevan," Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia U.).
- "Armeno-Iranian relations under the Qajars up to the conclusion of the Treaty of Torkamanchay," Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia U.).
- "Alexander, Prince of Georgia," Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia U.).
- "Lazarian Institute," New Encyclopedia of Russian History (MacMillan NY).
- "Armenia and the Armenians," New Encyclopedia of Russian History (MacMillan NY).
- "I. Gudovich," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (Miami).
- "Armenian," An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires (London).
- "The Armenian Community of Isfahan in the Seventeenth Century," Armenian Review (Boston, 1971-1972).
- "Sebeos: A Historical Controversy," Armenian Review (1973).
- "The Armenian Community of Isfahan in the Seventeenth Century," Armenian Review (Boston, 1971-1972)
- "Sebeos: A Historical Controversy," Armenian Review (1973).
- "The Rise of the National and Political Consciousness among the Armenian, Georgian, and Turco-Tatar People and their Role in the Events of 1905-1907," Armenian Review (1973).
- "The System of Land Tenure in Eastern Armenia during the Last Years of Persian Rule," Armenian Review (1979).
- "Methods of Taxation in Eastern Armenia prior to the Russian Conquest," Armenian Review (1983).
- "The Armenian Church and the Political Formation of Eastern Armenia," Armenian Review (1983).
- "Rewriting History: Recent Azeri Alterations of Primary Sources Dealing with Karabagh," Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies [hereafter JSAS] (U. Michigan, Dearborn, 1992-1993).
- "The Politics of Demography: Misuse of Sources on the Armenian Population of Mountainous Karabagh," JSAS (1999).
- "The Russian Archives and Armenian History," JSAS (2000).
- "Post-Soviet Armenia," American Encyclopedia (NY, 2000).
- "Relations Between Armenian Studies in the United States and Armenia," Rethinking Armenian Studies: Past, Present and Future (Boston, 2004).

Academic Awards, Honors and Officerships:
Secretary of the Society of Armenian Studies.
Member of the Board of the Iranica Institute.
Member of the New Jersey Holocaust and Genocide Commission.

Other Information:
Has organized faculty and student trips at Iona for past 15 years. Has visitied Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Australia (2), Spain (2), Morocco (2), China (4), Egypt (4), Isreal-Palestine, Jordan (2), India (2), Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Cuba, Brazil (2), Argentina, Kenya, South Africa, Madagascar and Alaska.

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