Daniel Ohanian is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Specializing in early modern and modern Ottoman-Armenian history, Daniel's dissertation focuses on the spread of Roman Catholicism among Ottoman Armenians around 1700 and the imprisonment in France of the anti-Catholic archbishop AwetikĘż of Tokat.
Originally from Toronto, Daniel is a specialist in Ottoman-Armenian history from 1660 onward. He holds degrees from York University in Canada and Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey, and his articles have been published in Genocide Studies International, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, and Turcica. Revue d'études turques. In Turkey, he helped produce datasets and maps covering 45,000 Armenians in Ottoman Istanbul by using demographic records in Ottoman Turkish, Armenian, and Armeno-Turkish. (These materials are available through Houshamadyan.)