Bogdan Pavlish

Bogdan Pavlish is a historian of early modern Eastern Europe and the world. He is interested in topics of social, cultural, and religious history with the focus on the Armenian diaspora, Catholic missions, and slavery in the Black Sea region. Bogdan is finishing a book manuscript on cross-cultural contacts and mobility in the Armenian diaspora of Poland-Lithuania in the seventeenth century. His second book project deals with the role of religion in interactions between Christian slaves and Catholic missionaries in the Black Sea region, particularly in Crimea, in the early modern period. Bogdan received his PhD in 2024 from the Department of History at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.