Sirarpie Der Nersessian

Sirarpie Der Nersessian
Born	(1896-09-05)September 5, 1896 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	July 5, 1989(1989-07-05) (aged 92) Paris, France
Alma mater	Sorbonne University
Awards	Order of Saint Gregory the Illuminator (1960, First Class) Anania Shirakatsi Award (1981, Armenian Academy of Sciences)
Scientific career
Fields	Armenian studies, Byzantine studies
Institutions	Dumbarton Oaks Wellesley College Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Gabriel Millet

Sirarpie Der Nersessian (5 September 1896 – 5 July 1989) was an Armenian art historian, who specialized in Armenian and Byzantine studies. Der Nersessian was a renowned academic and a pioneer in Armenian art history. She taught at several institutions in the United States, including Wellesley College in Massachusetts and as Henri Focillon Professor of Art and Archaeology at Harvard University.^[1][2] She was a senior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, its deputy director from 1954–55 and 1961–62, and a member of its Board of Scholars. Der Nersessian was also a member of several international institutions such as the British Academy (1975), the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1978), and the Armenian Academy of Sciences (1966).^[2]