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Hasmik Khalapyan is an Associate Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University of Armenia, affiliated with General Education. She holds a PhD in History from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and an MA in English Literature from Miami University in Ohio. Her research interests include Ottoman history of the 19th and 20th centuries; women's history and movements worldwide in comparative perspective; social change and social movements; education and online education; theories and histories of empires and colonialism; gender and international law; and concepts and histories of social change in local and global perspectives. Khalapyan has conducted archival research in Ottoman history in archives and libraries in Armenia, Austria, France, and Turkey.

From 2009 to 2020, she served as Academic Director of the AGBU Armenian Virtual College. She is a member of the Faculty Senate's BAC Committee at the American University of Armenia. Her publications include the monograph The Armenian Women's Movement in the Late Ottoman Empire: Modernity, Nationalism and Gender (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2024). Selected articles are 'Forging Diasporic Identity in the Fin de Siècle Armenian Periodical Press in Europe' in The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power (2023); 'The Armenian Theater in Asia Minor, 1860s to 1912' in Armenian Community in Asia Minor (2014); 'Azniv Hrachia’s Autobiography as a Historical Source for Study of Theater and the World Beyond Ramifications' and 'Acting as Career for Ottoman Armenian Women' in edited volumes (2014, 2013); 'Kendine Ait Bir Feminizm: Zabel Yesayan’ın Hayatı ve Faaliyetleri' (2006); and contributions to EVN Report including 'The "New Woman" for the "New Nation:" The Woman’s Question and Feminism Defined Among Ottoman Armenians' (2020), 'Marriage Law and Culture: Ottoman Armenians and Women’s Efforts for Reform' (2019), and 'Armenian Women’s Writing in the Ottoman Empire, Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries' (2019). Her works have been published in international journals and edited volumes in English and translated into Turkish. She presented 'Narratives of Atheism in Forging a Soviet Armenian Citizen' at an Armenian studies conference.