Nina Garsoïan Explained

Nina Garsoïan
Birth Date:	11 April 1923
Birth Place:	Paris, France
Death Place:	New York City, U.S.
Fields:	Armenian history, Byzantine history
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Nina G. Garsoïan (April 11, 1923 – August 14, 2022) was a French-born American historian specializing in Armenian and Byzantine history.^{[1] [2] [3]} In 1969 she became the first female historian to get tenure at Columbia University and, subsequently, became the first holder of Gevork M. Avedissian Chair in Armenian History and Civilization at Columbia. From 1977 to 1979, she served as dean of the Graduate School of Princeton University.^[4]

Biography

Nina G. Garsoïan was born in Paris on April 11, 1923,^[5] to Armenian parents from Nakhichevan-on-Don (Rostov-on-Don) and Tbilisi. She moved to New York in 1933. She received a Bachelor of Arts in classical archaeology from Bryn Mawr College in 1943 and both Master of Arts degree and PhD from Columbia University in Byzantine, Near Eastern, and Armenian history. She received Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Mekhitarist monastery of San Lazzaro degli Armeni on San Lazzaro Island in Venice.

Garsoïan began teaching at Smith College in 1956 and Columbia in 1962. In 1969 she became the first female professor to receive tenure at Columbia's Department of History. Garsoïan became the first female dean of the Princeton University Graduate School when she was appointed to the position in 1977.^[6] She served in that position until 1979.^[7]

In 1979, she became the first holder of Gevork M. Avedissian Chair in Armenian History and Civilization at Columbia University. She retired in 1993 and was subsequently professor emerita of Armenian History and Civilization.

Garsoïan was the director of the Paris-based Revue des Études Arméniennes and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.^[8] She participated in a Byzantine Studies Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, twice serving as a co-director.

Garsoïan died on August 14, 2022, at the age of 99.^{[9] [10]}

Publications

Garsoïan published numerous books and journal and encyclopedia articles on Armenian, Byzantine, and Sasanian history. In her publications she emphasized the Iranian/Persian influence on Armenian history.

Books

• The Paulician Heresy. Mouton, 1968.
• Armenia between Byzantium and the Sasanians. Variorum Publishing. 1985.
• L'Église arménienne et le grand schisme d'Orient. Peeters Publishers. 1999.
• Church and Culture in Early Medieval Armenia. Ashgate Publishing, 1999.
• De Vita Sua. Mazda Publishers, 2011. (memoir)

Articles

• "Byzantine Heresy. A Reinterpretation." Dumbarton Oaks Papers 25 (1971): 85–113.
• "Secular jurisdiction over the Armenian church (fourth-seventh centuries)." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 7 (1983): 220–250.
• "Byzantium and the Sasanians." Cambridge History of Iran 3.1 (1983): 568–592.
• "The problem of Armenian integration into the Byzantine empire." Studies on the internal diaspora of the Byzantine Empire (1998): 53–124.

Translations

• The trade and cities of Armenia in relation to ancient world trade by Hakob Manandian. 1965
• Armenia in the Period of Justinian by Nicholas Adontz. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 1970.
• The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia by Aram Ter-Ghevondyan. Livraria Bertrand. 1976
• The Epic Histories Attributed to Pʻawstos Buzand: (Buzandaran Patmutʻiwnkʻ). Harvard University Press, 1989.

Notes and References

1. Yuzbashian . Karen . Karen Yuzbashyan . Nina G. Garsoian. The Paulician Heresy. A Study of the Origine and Development of Paulicianism in Armenia and the Eastern Provinces of the Byzantine Empire. The Hague-Paris, 1967, 293 էջ+1 քարտեզ։ Նինա Գ. Գարսոյան. Պավլիկյան աղանդը. Ուսումնասիրություն նվիրված Հայաստանում և Բյուզանդական կայսրության արևելյան գավառներում պավլիկյան շարժման ծագմանն ու զարգացմանը . . 1968 . 4 . 243–248 . hy.
2. Zekiyan . Levon . Levon Zekiyan . Նինա Գարսոյեանի "Հայոց Եկեղեցին եւ Արեւելքի մեծ բաժանումը" մենագրութիւնը . . 2016 . 73 . 2 . 127–139 . . hy . 1829-4243.
3. Nersessian . Vrej . Vrej Nersessian . Nina G. Garsoian : Armenia between Byzantium and the Sasanians. (Collected studies.) viii, 332 pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1985 32. . . 1987 . 50 . 2 . 430 . 10.1017/S0041977X00049880 . 162612413 .
4. Web site: History . . https://web.archive.org/web/20210627223839/https://gradschool.princeton.edu/about/history . 27 June 2021.
5. Book: Avdoyan . Levon . Chance . Jane . Jane Chance . Women Medievalists and the Academy . 2005 . University of Wisconsin Press . 9780299207502 . "Magistra Studentorum per Armeniam et Byzantium".
6. Web site: Coeducation: History of Women at Princeton University . libguides.princeton.edu . https://web.archive.org/web/20210812094929/https://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84581&p=543232 . 12 August 2021.
7. Web site: Nina Garsoian, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History; Dean of the Graduate School 1977–1979 . artmuseum.princeton.edu . https://web.archive.org/web/20210514035402/https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/45647 . 14 May 2021.
8. Web site: Professor Nina Garsoïan FBA . thebritishacademy.ac.uk. . https://web.archive.org/web/20210514173906/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/nina-garsoian-FBA/ . 14 May 2021.
9. News: Der Matossian . Bedross . Bedross Der Matossian . The Society for Armenian Studies is sorry to bear the sad news of the passing of the preeminent Armenian Studies scholar, Prof. Nina Garsoïan . Society for Armenian Studies . August 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220816072557/https://www.facebook.com/societyforarmenianstudies/posts/pfbid02JnpCD39ta8nkABBZu81fANJC3ogMyw9otaiR472SFR1NnZY1poP2355Znko1W7Vml . 16 August 2022.
10. News: Eminent Armenologist Nina Garsoïan Passes Away . 16 August 2022 . The Armenian Mirror Spectator . 16 August 2022.