Haig Bosmajian


Haig Aram Bosmajian was an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983 Orwell Award for his book The Language of Oppression. Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 from Stanford University. His work has explored rhetoric and the freedom of speech. Bosmajian was professor emeritus at the University of Washington, in the Speech/Communications Department, where he taught since 1965. He was married for 57 years to Hamida Bosmajian, also a published author and a professor at nearby Seattle University.
Haig and Hamida Bosmajian wrote the textbook, The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement, which has been published as a student textbook to analyze strategies of rhetoric.

Works

Selected works by Haig Bosmajian include: