We are honoured to announce that Dr. Tamar Marie Boyadjian has joined the Board of Directors of the Armenian Genocide Museum of Canada (AGMC) as our new Chair.

Dr. Boyadjian brings with her an extraordinary blend of scholarship, creativity, and commitment to Armenian language and cultural preservation. An internationally recognized, award-winning author, editor, translator, and educator, Dr. Boyadjian has shaped global conversations on Armenian identity, memory, and literary futures.

She is the first U.S.-born author to publish a book of poetry in Western Armenian—ինչորէանէ / it is what it is (Antares, 2015)—and the pioneering writer behind the first fantasy series ever written in Western Armenian, ՄէփէնուՎիշապը / The Mepe and the Dragon (Arpi Publishing, 2025). Her scholarly book The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean received the prestigious Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies in 2019.

Dr. Boyadjian’s work is grounded in bridging the ancient and the contemporary. With decades of teaching and a prolific publishing record, she illuminates the ethical urgency of endangered language preservation, elevates overlooked women writers in Armenian history, and explores the radical possibilities of Armenian Futurism—sparking vital global discourse.

She has served as guest editor of two landmark volumes of contemporary Armenian literature in English translation—makukachu (Ingnakir, 2017) and unscripted: An Armenian Palimpsest (University of Michigan Press, 2017)—and from 2020–2024, was the first female Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Society of Armenian Studies.

Her new book Կաթիլ մը կին՝ անանուն, անքերթուած [a drop of woman: unnamed, unwritten] won a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian foundation and will be released by Aras Yayıncılık in Istanbul in 2025.

Dr. Boyadjian currently teaches Western Armenian at Stanford University and continues to mentor new generations of writers, scholars, and artists committed to Armenian language and culture.

We are beyond proud to welcome Dr. Boyadjian to our leadership. Her unique vision and dedication will be invaluable in shaping AGMC’s future.