Ashot Melkonyan | |
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Ashot A. Melkonyan | |
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Education | Yerevan State University |
Occupation(s) | Professor and historian |
Ashot A. Melkonyan (born on 16 February 1961 in Akhalkalak, Javakhk, Georgian SSR) is a historian, professor, and academic advisor at the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Since 2002, he has been the Director of the Institute of History of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. [1]
He graduated from the Faculty of History at Yerevan State University (YSU) in 1982 and received his PhD in history at YSU in 1989. [2] Since 2002 he has been a lecturer and Chair of History of Armenia at Yerevan State University. He is a member of the association of historians of the EENI[ expand acronym ] countries. [1]
Melkonyan is an author of several historical studies (including monographs and over 350 articles). [2] The works are devoted mainly to the history of Armenia, the Armenian genocide, Javakhk, and Armenian–Georgian relations. [1]
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