Ashot A. Melkonyan (born 16 February 1961 in Akhalkalak, Javakhk, Georgian SSR) is a historian, professor, and academician 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]
Ashot Melkonyan | |
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Born | |
Education | Yerevan State University |
Occupation(s) | Professor, historian |
Biography
editHe graduated from the Faculty of History at the Yerevan State University 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 the Yerevan State University.
Melkonyan is an author of historical studies (including monographs and over 350 articles).[3] The works are devoted mainly to the history of Armenia, the Armenian genocide, Javakhk, the Armenian-Georgian relations, and the historical demography of Armenia.[4]
He is a member of the association of historians of the EENI[expand acronym] countries.[5]
Awards
edit- Prize of Armenia Fund (for his "Erzerum" monography, 1994).
- Movses Khorenatsi medal (2003).
- "Haykashen Uzunyan" Prize of Tekeyan Cultural Union (for his "Javakhk in the 19th Century and the 1st Quarter of the 20th Century" monography, 2004).
- Honorary citizen of Akhalkalak (2009).[6]
- Andranik Ozanyan medal (2013),
Bibliography
editin English
edit- Javakhk in the 19th Century and the 1st Quarter of the 20th Century (A Historical Research), Yerevan, 2007, 256 pages.
References
edit- ^ Biography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
- ^ Melkonyan's Biography (in Armenian), Institute of History
- ^ Melkonyan's Biography (in Armenian), Institute of History
- ^ Biography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
- ^ Biography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
- ^ Biography, YSU Official site