Levon Chorbajian

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Levon Chorbajian (born 1942) is an American sociologist. He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. [1] He is the Director of the US section of the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation. [2]

An Armenian American, Chorbajian is involved in socialist and progressive politics [3] and is a critic of neoliberalism. [4] [5]

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