Dickran Kouymjian is the Haig and Isabel Berberian Professor Emeritus of Armenian Studies at California State University in Fresno. Professor Kouymjian earned his B.A. in European Studies form the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and M.A. in Arab Studies from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. in Armenian Studies from Columbia Universtiy’s Department of Near & Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures. He was invited to Fresno in 1977 to establish a new Program in Armenian Studies at California State University and served there since 1988 as the first incumbent of the Haig & Isabel Berberian Endowed Chair of Armenian Studies at Fresno State. Some of Professor Kouymjian’s publications he authored or co-authored include, Preface, Lost Landscapes, Helen Sheehan, Armenian Family Stories and Lost Landscapes – Ermeni Aile Öyküleri ve Kayip Mekanlar, exhibition catalogue, 14 January – 8 February 2015, Istanbul: Depo, 2015, pp. 6-9, 80; Préface, Haroutioun Khatchatrian and Michel Basmadjian, L’art des khatchkars. Les pierres à croix arméniennes d’Ispahan et de Jérusalem, Paris: Geuthner, 2014, pp. 5-8; The Role of Armenian Potters of Kutahia in the Ottoman Ceramic Industry, Richard Hovannisian, ed., Armenian Communities in Asia Minor, vol. 13, Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2014, pp. 107-130; Between Amsterdam and Constantinople: The Impact of Printing on Armenian Culture, Die Kunst der Armenier im Östlichen Europa, Marina Dmitrieva and Balint Kovacs, eds., Köln-Weimar-Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2014, pp. 19-26, pls. 1-2; The Archeology of the Armenian Manuscript: Codicology, Paleography and Beyond, Valentine Calzolari, ed., with the collaboration of Michael Stone, Armenian Philology in the Modern Era: From Manuscript to Digital Text, Leiden: Brill, 2014, pp. 5-22; Notes on Armenian Codicology, Part 2, Armenian Paleography: Dating the Major Scripts, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter, no. 6 (July 2013), pp. 22-28; Notes on Armenian Codicology, Part 1, Statistics based Surveys of Armenian Manuscripts, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter no. 4, July 2012, pp. 18-23; Armenian Medieval Illumination. Armenia: Imprints of a Civilization. Gabriella Uluhogian, Boghos Levon Zekiyan, Vartan Karapetian, eds., Exhibition on the Occasion of the Fifth Centenary of Armenian Printing, Venice, Correr, 14 Dec-10 April 2012, Milan: Skira, 2011, pp. 91-97. Italian, English, French editions; The Crime Against Cultural Heritage and Heritage Memory: The Question of Abondened Property, The Crime of Genocide: Prevention, Condemnation and Elimination of Consequences, ed. Aram Harutyunyan, Erevan: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2011, pp. 178-186.

* With the kind permission of Manuscript Cultures Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg