Houri Berberian, is an assistant professor in the Department of History at California State University, Long Beach, and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her M.A. and Ph.D. (1997) from UCLA, where she specialized in modern Middle Eastern history. Her other fields of competence are the comparative history of women, minorities, Armenia and the Caucasus. Her book, Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1911: The love for freedom has no fatherland, came out in 2001 with Westview Press. In 2000, she won the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Prize for Excellence in a Published Article for "Armenian Women in Turn-of-the-Century Iran: Education and activism," which appeared in Iran and Beyond: Essays in middle eastern history in honor of Nikki R. Keddie (Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2000).