Arnold Alahverdian

Arnold Alahverdian obtained his B.A. degree from CSU Northridge, where his studies mainly dealt with Middle Eastern history, society, and politics. He attended UC Irvine for his M.A. degree in history. Arnold’s M.A. thesis, “Masculinity and Militant Piety in Defying Yazdgerd II,” traces the militant manifestations of masculine traits attributed as virtue to defiant martyrs in Sasanian hagiographies reflecting on mid-fifth century persecutions. His areas of interest include matters regarding group identity, communal boundaries, and violence in the Sasanian Empire and the larger world of Late Antiquity. The soon-to-be Ph.D. student and Professor Touraj Daryaee’s research assistant is also a curious student of world history.     , Advisor: Dr. Touraj Daryaee
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, Awards
Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Summer Fellowship (DTEI, UC Irvine, 2020)
Department of History Summer Research Award (UC Irvine, 2020)
Movahedi Family Fellowship (Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine, 2020)
Armenian Studies Prize in Honor of Sylvie Tertzakian (Center for Armenian Studies, UC Irvine, 2020)
The Humanities Dean’s Gateway Award in Persian Studies (School of Humanities, UC Irvine, 2018)
Dumbarton Oaks and HMML Syriac Summer Program Fellowship (2017)
The Farzaneh Family Fellowship (Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine, 2017)
UC Regents’ Fellowship (School of Humanities, UC Irvine, 2015)
Albert Zoraster Scholarship for Academic Excellence (CSU Northridge, 2013)

Publications
Submitting soon: "Slaying Huns for the King of Kings: On the Iranian Colors of Christian Armenian Heroism in the Sasanian East” (Dabir, 2021)