From Persia to America
The Life and Work of Emma Ordjanian Melikian
By: Stephen Batalden
Emma Ordjanian Melikian was born in Teheran into a family that, having earlier faced imprisonment in Russia following the Revolution of 1917, fled to Persia where the Ordjanian family had longstanding roots.
From Persia to America traces Emma’s family life in Teheran and the move to New York where she completes her schooling, marries, has four children, and begins charitable work within the Armenian community of metropolitan New York.The biography concludes with her years in Phoenix where her civic leadership and philanthropy included the founding of the non-profit organization, “Thank you America,” and the endowment of The Melikian Center at Arizona State University.
From Persia to America draws upon extended first-person interviews with Emma Ordjanian Melikian who remains deeply engaged and discerning in her tenth decade.
Stephen Batalden
HISTORIAN, AUTHOR, PROFESSOR
Stephen K. Batalden is professor emeritus of history and founding director of the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies at Arizona State
University. A specialist on Russian/East European religious and cultural history, his Cambridge University Press volume, Russian Bible Wars: Modern Scriptural Translation and Cultural Authority, received the 2014 Reginald Zelnik Award of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for outstanding contribution to modern Russian history.
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