Haig Bosmajian

Haig Aram Bosmajian (March 26, 1928- June 17, 2014) was an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983 Orwell Award for his book The Language of Oppression (1974).

[1][2] Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 from Stanford University.

[2] Bosmajian was professor emeritus at the University of Washington,[3] 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.

[2][3] Haig and Hamida Bosmajian wrote the textbook, The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement (1969), which has been published as a student textbook to analyze strategies of rhetoric.