Haig Aram Bosmajian (March 26, 1928- June 17, 2014) was an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983Orwell Award for his bookThe Language of Oppression (1974).[1][2] Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 fromStanford University. His work has exploredrhetoric and thefreedom of speech.[2] Bosmajian was professor emeritus at theUniversity 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 nearbySeattle 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 ofrhetoric.[4]
