Sona Tajiryan
Fellowship: 2022-2024, GIA Research & Development, Carlsbad, USA
Area of Study: The early modern (∼1500-1800 AD) history of global gem trade; the involvement of Armenian family firms in the gem trade across the Indian subcontinent and the Mediterranean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Title: Post-doctoral Research Associate, GIA Research & Development, Carlsbad, USA
Education:
- Bachelor of Arts, Arabic Studies, Yerevan State University, 2009
- Master of Arts, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Yerevan State University, 2011
- Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
