Sebouh Aslanian is Professor of history and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History at UCLA. Professor Aslanian is the author of the award-winning book, From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (University of California, 2011), as well as numerous scholarly articles on global and Armenian history and Armenian Studies. Aslanian has published in the American Historical Review, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, The Journal of World History, and the Journal of Global History, among others. He is now completing his second book manuscript Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800, scheduled to appear with Yale University Press in 2021.