Participant Info
- First Name
- Nyri
- Last Name
- Bakkalian
- Country
- United States
- State
- 38
- nyri@riversidewings.com
- Affiliation
- Freelance Scholar
- Website URL
- www.riverside-wings.com
- Keywords
- japan, military history, tohoku, tohoku region, sendai, bakumatsu, american civil war, boshin war, yokai, shinto
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- Follow me on Twitter at @riversidewings -- I'm most active there.
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian is an Armenian-American queer woman by birth and a military historian by training. She is a staff writer for Unseen Japan, and the author of Grey Dawn: A Tale of Abolition and Union, which received the 2021 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite award. She hosts the podcast Friday Night History and co-hosts Cleyera: Conversations on Shinto.
She is proud to have called the American and Japanese northeasts her home. She has produced nonfiction, fiction, and photography content for more than a dozen publications, including two newspapers and five anthologies, as well as for Eisner Award-nominated author Magdalene Visaggio’s Kim & Kim. What’s her secret, you ask? Garlic and Turkish coffee (but really mostly Turkish coffee). Come say hi to her on Twitter, Twitch Patreon, and Facebook, at riversidewings
- Recent Publications
Books:
- Grey Dawn (Balance of Seven Press, 2020)
- Confluence (Balance of Seven Press, 2022)
Publications:
- Author page at Unseen Japan
- “Chinode-matsuri,” in Ab Terra
- “All that Remains,” in Queers That Don’t Quit
- “The Lone Woman of Kokura,” in Nursing Clio
- “The Armenians of Pittsburgh,” in Queer Around the World
- “Shivers,” in Rogues: Before and Beyond
- “Grey Dawn Breaking,” in Rogues and Wild Fire
- “Mundane and Divine Intertwined,” in Gods and Radicals
- “First Light at Dawn,” in Queerly Loving, Vol. 1
- “Three Photographs,” in Inklette Magazine
- “In the Vale,” in Copperfield Review
- “Combat Artist: Finding Koike Chikyoku,” in Gutsy Broads
- “What Charley Longfellow Saw,” in Metropolis Japan
- “Sharpshooter, Educator, Nurse, Hero,” in Gutsy Broads
Podcast Appearances
- “Implosion,” Ep. 107 of Podcast 13
- “The Ninja Who Met James Buchanan,” on Outlaw History
- “Japanese History, the Civil War in Pennsylvania, and Writing Historically Based Fiction,” on Evoking History
- “Japanese-US Maritime Intersections in the 1860s,” Sea Control Ep. 163 from CIMSEC
- “The Shogunate Navy,” Preble Hall Episode 22
- “Shogun 2, The Last Samurai, and Western Misconceptions,” Ep. 109 of Lions Led by Donkeys
Public Lectures and Stage Shows
- “The Armenians of Pittsburgh” (WordPlay, 2017)
- “Get Your History the Anime Way” (Tekko 2018)
- “Animal-Person Caricatures” (Anthrocon 2019)
- “Grey Dawn” (WPAFW 2020)
- “Shunga” (WPAFW 2021)
- “Tohoku Krampus: Get to Know the Namahage of Northern Japan” (Anthrocon 2022)
- Media Coverage
- riversidewings
- Country Focus
- Japan
- Expertise by Geography
- Japan, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 3, 4, 5, 6
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Gender, Government, Military, Politics, Religion, Women