Brian A. Ellison is Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the American University of Armenia. He previously served as Director of the Martin School and founding Chair of the Department of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Idaho, as Chair of the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University, and as Director of Master of Public Administration programs at the University of Idaho, the College of Charleston, and Missouri State University. Professor Ellison has served as a visiting professor at the University of Political Science and Law and at Liaoning Normal University in China, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Bulgaria, Fulbright Hayes Scholar in Bulgaria and Turkey, as visiting Professor of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University in Russia, and as a higher education consultant for the Open Society to Yerevan State University in Armenia. Dr. Ellison’s research focuses on public administration, local government, and economic development and has appeared in journals and edited volumes, including Policy Studies Journal, Natural Resources Journal, Administration and Society, International Journal of Public Administration, State and Local Government Review, Environmental Management, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Policy Studies Review, American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration Review, and others. Professor Ellison received his PhD in environmental politics and policy from Colorado State University, and Master of Public Administration, Master of Arts in American Studies, and Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Wyoming.
Education
Ph.D., Colorado State University
Office location
MB Room 504M
Email
[email protected]
Phone
(+374 60) 61 2503
Office hours
By appointment
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Economic Development, Local Government Administration, Environmental Politics
Courses currently taught
- PSIA345 Development Policy and Strategy
- PSIA352 Economics for Political Science
Vache Gabrielyan specializes in public administration and economics. He studied at the Yerevan State University and received his Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration from Rutgers University. He has served as Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Armenia (2008-2010), Minister of Finance (2010-2012), Minister-Chief of Government Staff (2013-2014), Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister (May – November 2014), as well as the Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia, and the Minister of International Economic Integration and Reforms (2014-2018). Effective January, 2019 Dr. Vache Gabrielyan has been appointed as Dean of the Manoogian Simone College of Business and Economics (CBE). Dr. Vache Gabrielyan is the author of a number of scientific papers published in Armenia and abroad.
Education
PhD, Rutgers University
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Public Administration, Public Policy, Research Methods
Courses currently taught
PSIA 340 Introduction to Public Administration
Selected Publications
Books and Symposia:
- Red Tape from Red Square: Bureaucratic Commentary in Soviet Graphic Satirical Art, with Marc Holzer, Iryna Illiash and Lyudmila Kuznetsova, National Sector for Public Productivity, 2010.
- “Bureaucracy on the Silver Screen: A World-Wide Perspective.” Co-editor: Marc Holzer, Public Voices, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2000).
- “Post-Soviet Bureaucracy: Change and Continuity,” Co-editor: Marc Holzer, special issue of the International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1999.
Articles (Peer Reviewed Journals):
- “Discourse in Comparative Policy Analysis: Privatization Policies in Britain, Russia and the United States,” Policy and Society, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2006, pp. 47-75.
- “The Origins and Transformation of Policy Ideas: Case study: Education Law of Armenia’, with Gayane Selimyan, NISPAcee Occassional Papers,Volume IV – No. 3 Summer 2003.
- “Investing in Corporate Securities: Prospects in Armenia,” with Gnel Sahakyan, Information Technologies and Management, No. 2, 2002, pp. 212-225 (in Armenian).
- “The Rise and Fall of Soviet Screen Bureaucrat,” Public Voices, 2000. Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 61-72.
- “Post-Communist Bureaucracies: Organizational Modes of Transition,” International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1999, pp. 69-99.
- “Public Administration in Ancient China: Practice and Theory,” Public Voices, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 25-44.
Chapters and Book articles:
- “Challenges of Economics and Armenian Economy,” in Yerevan State University Department of Economics Yearbook, Yerevan: YSU Publishing, 2013, pp. 5-11 (in Armenian).
- “Introduction” and “Government Regulation of Banking,” in Asatryan, Bagrat (ed.) Banking, Second edition, Yerevan: Gir Publishers, 2013, pp. 16-22 and 443-458 (in Armenian).
- Vache Gabrielyan and Gayane Selimyan, “Public Management Reforms: Armenia,” in Bouckaert Geert, Nemec Juraj, Nakrosis Vitalis, Hajnal Gyorgy, Tonnisson Kristiina (Eds.) Public Management Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. NISPAcee Press, Bratislava, 2009, pp. 27-50.
- “Qualitative Research Methods: An Overview,” with Kaifeng Yang and Susan Spice, in Gerald J. Miller and Kaifeng Yang (eds.). Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, New York: Second edition, New York: CRC Press, 2007, pp. 141-171.
- “Five Great Ideas of American Public Administration,” with Marc Holzer, and Kaifeng Yang in Rabin, Jack, Hildreth, W. B. and Gerald J. Miller (eds.). Handbook of Public Administration, Third edition, New York: CRC Press, 2007, pp. 49-103.
- “Comparative and International Administration,” with George M. Guess, in Rabin, Jack et al. (eds.), Handbook of Public Administration, Third edition, New York: CRC Press, 2007, pp. 565-605.
- “Capital Account Liberalization Experiences in Armenia,” with Armine Khachatryan, in Bakker, Age F.P. and Bryan Chapple (eds). Capital Liberalization in Transition Countries: Lessons from the Past and for the Future. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003.
- International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration. Jay Shafritz, Editor-in-Chief. Harper-Collins/Westview Press. 1998. Author/co-author of the following entries:“Outsourcing,” pp. 1590-1596.
“Cost-Effectiveness Analysis,” pp. 563-566. - “Reforming Eastern European Bureaucracy: Does American Experience Apply?” with Frank Fischer, in Asmerom, Haile K. and Reis E. (eds.) Democratization and Bureaucratic Neutrality: Experience From Developed and Third World; London: MacMillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996, pp. 109-127.
Email
[email protected]
Phone
(+374 60) 61 26 10
Office location
222W (PAB)
Office hours
By appointment
Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan specializes and has interest in the sphere of civil society, political culture, volunteering, democratization of post-communist countries, research methodology and corruption. She received her PhD in Political Science from Jacobs University Bremen. Prior to joining AUA, she worked at Eurasia Partnership foundation and at Caucasus Research Resource Centers – Armenia. She is the team leader of a four-year research project about Armenian civil society and has authored publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Jenny Paturyan is an AUA PSIA alumna.
Education, Degree
PhD, Jacobs University Bremen
Office location
123W, Paramaz Avedisian Building
Email
[email protected]
Phone
(+374 60) 61 26 75
Office hours
Varies depending on teaching schedule. Also by appointment.
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Democracy and Democratization, Civil Society, Corruption, Research Methodology
Courses currently taught
- PSIA303 Research methods in Political Science
- PSIA344 Public Policy Analysis
- PSIA384 Civil Society and Social Capital
- PSIA310 Comparative Politics
- PSIA101 Introduction to Political Science
- PG 102 Introduction to Political Inquiry
Research Activities/Projects
- “Armenian Civil Society after 20 Years of Transition: Still Post-Communist?”
- “Civic Activism as a Novel Component of Armenian Civil Society: New Energy and Tensions”
Publications
- Armenian Civil Society: Old Problems, New Energy After Two Decades of Independence. Springer International Publishing, 2021 (co-author: Valentina Gevorgyan)
- “Re-emerging Civic Activism: Restoring the Ecosystem of Armenian Civil Society” in Civil Society in the Global South, ed. Palash Kamruzzaman, London and New York, Routledge, 2018, 54-70 (coauthor V. Gevorgyan).
- “Armenian Civil Society: It is Not All About NGOs.” Caucasus Analytical Digest 73: 2-5, 2015.
- “Is ‘Googling’ a Technique? What the Internet Can Tell Us about the Non-Governmental Sector in Armenia.” Haigazian Armenological Review 34 (July): 257–67, 2014. (coauthors Valentina Gevorgyan, and Mariam Matevosyan).
- “Trust towards NGOs and Volunteering in South Caucasus: Civil Society Moving Away from Post-Communism?” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 14 (2): 239-62, 2014 (coauthor V. Gevorgyan).
- “(Dis)Trusting People and Political Institutions in Armenia.” Caucasus Analytical Digest 31: 6-10, 2011.
- Civil Society and Democracy: Disentangling Mutual Influences. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller: Saarbrücken, 2011.
- “Perceptions of Corruption in Armenia: Growing Disappointment and Detachment?” In Adam Hug (ed) Spotlight on Armenia. London: The Foreign Policy Centre. Pp 29-35, 2011 (coauthor Jrbashyan Nairuhi).
Education
Dr. Philosophy (History), University of Bergen, Norway
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, NAS, Yerevan
MA, Lund University, Sweden
BA, Yerevan State University, Armenia
Office location
105W, Paramaz Avedisian Building
Email
[email protected]
Phone
(+374 60) 61 26 70
Office hours
Mondays 12:00-1:00 pm
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Turkish domestic and foreign policy, Regional Security, Conflicts in the post-Soviet Space
Courses currently taught
- PSIA282 Survey of Regional Politics
- PSIA311 Caucasus Regional Politics
- PSIA324 Security Policy
- PSIA360 Armenian Politics
- PSIA364 Middle East Politics
Research Database IDs
ORCID: 0000-0002-2212-0391
SCOPUS Author ID: 36599336300
Researcher ID-N-4267-2017
Research Activities/Projects
- SCOPE – “Religion and soft power: Religious Communities in the South Caucasus as Objects of External Influences”
- NUPI – “Research Beyond the Ivory Tower: Policy and Communication Training for University Teams”
Selected Publications
Monograph
- “Turkey, Kemalism, and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation”, New York & London. Palgrave Macmillan 2019.
Reviewed in:- Sakarya, Sumeyye. (2021). Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation, written by Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (published online ahead of print 2021).
- Hryhorii Mavrov. (2021) Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation, written by Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, Insight Turkey, vol. 23, no. 1. pp. 252-254
- Mohammed Alrmizan (2020) Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation, written by Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, Turkish Studies, vol. 21, 2020, pp. 817-819.
- Sahakyan, Naira (2019) Review of Turkey, Kemalism, and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation, by Vahram Ter-Matevosyan. Ab Imperio, vol. 2019 no. 4, pp. 214-219.
- “Islam in the Social and Political life of Turkey (1970-2001)”. Yerevan. Limush Press. 2008
Edited Volumes
- Ter-Matevosyan V., Mkrtchyan N. (2021) The Conduct of Armenian Foreign Policy: Limits of the Precarious Balance. In: Brady AM., Thorhallsson B. (eds) Small States and the New Security Environment. The World of Small States, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51529-4_14
- “The policy of Turkey Towards Armenia During the Governing Period of the Justice and Development Party (2002-2012)”. 2020. Yerevan. Zangak. (in Armenian) (with R. Safrastyan, A. Hovhannisyan, T. Manukyan)
- “History of Armenia: Country Survey,” Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2020, 20th edition, ed. Dominic Heaney. London and New York, Routledge. 2019. pp. 57-63.
- “History of Armenia: Country Survey” in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2019, 19th edition, ed. Dominic Heaney, London and New York, Routledge, 2018, 55-61.
- “Turkish Soft Power Politics in Georgia: Making Sense of Political and Cultural Implications”, ed. Ansgar Jodicke in Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus, London, Routledge, 2018, 21-41
- “Armenian Foreign Policy: Problems of Institutional Developments” in Armenia’s Foreign Policy: Some Perspectives Stephan Astourian. UC Berkley Armenian Studies Program Occasional Papers. 2016. 55-77 (coauthor Anna Drnoian)
- “Turkish Policy in Georgia: Social and Economic Implications of Integration Projects”, in View Across the Border: Policy and Society in Georgia and Armenia, ed. T. Turmanidze, Tbilisi, BST GMF, 2014, pp. 23-41 (in Russian)
- “Military intervention. Reforms (1980-1995)”, in History of Turkish Republic, ed. R. Safrastyan, Yerevan, Yerevan State University Publication, 2014, pp. 237-277 (in Armenian)
- “Crisis of the Political System. The period of the Justice and Development Party (1996-2011)”, in History of Turkish Republic, ed. R. Safrastyan, Yerevan, Yerevan State University Publication, 2014, pp. 294-354 (in Armenian)
- “Reviewing Armenia’s National Security Strategy: Challenges and Reality” in Conference Proceedings “Regional Security Dynamics In The Caucasus”, Limush Press, Yerevan, 2012, pp. 95-104
Articles in Peer-Reviewed journals
- “Deadlocked in History and Geopolitics: Revisiting Armenia-Turkey Relations”, Digest of Middle Eastern Studies, 2021. vol. 30, no. 3, 155-169. https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.
12242 - “Problems of foreign service and diplomacy in the post-Soviet Context: The Case of Armenia”, Third World Quarterly, 2021,vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 755-774 https://doi.org/:10.1080/01436597.
2020.1866529 (with Anna Drnoian) - “Stranded in Geopolitics: The Question of Turkish Armenians in Soviet-Turkish Relations”, Middle Eastern Studies. 2020. vol. 56, no. 4., pp. 626-637 (with Ruben Melkonyan)
- “Navigating between international recognition paradigms: prospects and challenges for Nagorno Karabakh”, Caucasus Survey, 2019, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 181-196 (with Edita Ghazaryan)
- “A Conflict That Did Not Happen: Revisiting The Javakhk Affair In Georgia”, Nations and Nationalism, 2019, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 340-360 (with Brent Currie)
- “Armenia-Turkey border opening: what determines the attitude of Armenians?” Caucasus Survey, 2019, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 25-43 (with A. Grigoryan and K. Khachatryan)
- “Armenia in the Eurasian Economic Union: Reasons for Joining and its Consequences”, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2017, v. 58, no. 3, pp. 340-360 (coauthors A. Drnoian, N. Mkrtchyan, T. Yepremyan)
- “Praying Under Restrictions: Islam, Identity and Social Change in Azerbaijan”, Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, v. 69, no. 5, pp. 819-837 (coauthor – Nelly Minasyan)
- “Turkish Transformation and the Soviet Union: Navigating through the Soviet Historiography on Kemalism”, Middle Eastern Studies, 2017, v. 53, no. 2, pp. 281-296
- “Institutions and Identity Politics in the Armenian Diaspora: The Case Study of Russia and Lebanon”, Diaspora Studies, 2017, v. 10, n. 1, pp. 64-80 (coauthors H. Danielyan, V. Sisserian, N. Kankanyan, N. Shorjian)
- “Track two Diplomacy between Armenia and Turkey: Achievements and Limitations”, Caucasus Analytical Digest, 2016, July, no. 86, pp. 3-6.
- “The Kars-Akhalkalak railway project: Why Armenia Should Revisit its Position”, Turkish Review, 2016, v. 6, no. 3: pp. 130-135.
- “Kemalism and Communism: From Cooperation to Complication”, Turkish Studies, 2015, v. 16, no. 4, pp. 510-526.
- “Turkish Experience with Totalitarianism and Fascism: Tracing the Intellectual Origins”, Iran and the Caucasus, 2015, v. 19, no. 4, pp. 387-401.
- “Armenia and the Ukrainian Crisis: Finding the Middle Ground”. Caucasus Analytical Digest. December 2014, no. 67–68, pp. 14-17.
- “The Rebirth of Turkish Studies in Armenia”, Turkish Review, v. 4, no. 3, 2014, pp. 350-351.
- “Framing National Security Objectives: The Cases of Azerbaijan and Georgia”, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, v. 13/3, 2013, pp. 325-340
- “The Armenian Community and the AK Party: Finding Trust Under the Crescent”, Insight Turkey, v. 12, no. 4, 2010, pp. 93-111.
Asbed Kotchikian joined AUA after a twelve-year of teaching at the Global Studies Department at Bentley University. Before joining Bentley University he was the Assistant Director of International Affairs Program and assistant professor of Political Science at Florida State University. Between 2000 and 2002, Dr. Kotchikian was a visiting professor in Armenia teaching at Yerevan State University, Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences and the Gyumri branch of Armenian State University of Economics. For nine years (2008-17) he was the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Armenian Review journal. Between 2011 and 2019 Dr. Kotchikian was the academic coordinator of Armenia Higher Education Initiative (AHEI) which organized summer courses in social sciences and humanities methodology retraining for graduate students in Armenia focusing on students from universities outside of Yerevan. During the last 20 years, Dr. Kotchikian has traveled extensively in the Middle East (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey) and former Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, The Baltics, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine). He has written, lectured, presented, and organized conferences on foreign policies of small and weak states, questions of identity and diasporas, and regional developments in the Middle East and Eurasia. In recent years his research on minorities has taken him to Iraq (Kurdistan in 2015) and Syria (2014 and 2019). Apart from his academic/scholarly research, he is also a freelance consultant on de-radicalization, civil society and judicial reforms working with organizations such as Council of Europe and the European Union on projects in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine. Dr. Kotchikian received his undergraduate degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the American University of Beirut (AUB) after which he continued his graduate studies at Boston University obtaining his PhD in 2008 (with a dissertation work on the foreign policy of small states focusing on Georgia and Armenia).
Education
PhD. Boston University
BA American University of Beirut
Areas of Research and Teaching Specialization
Foreign policy making, diasporas, small states in the international system, terrorism, governments and politics in the Middle East and Eurasia.
Courses currently taught
PG104 Comparative Politics
PSIA310 Comparative Politics
PSIA323 International Organizations & Global Governance
PSIA361 Russian Politics
PSIA374 Small States in World Politics
Arthur Drampian is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has been affiliated with AUA since 1998. Dr. Drampian’s primary areas of interest are decentralization and local governance, public finance and budgeting, local economic development, environmental policy, public participation in government decision-making. Arthur Drampian holds PhD degree in Biology from Moscow State University (1987) and Master’s degree in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University, Massachusetts (1997). Dr. Drampian’s publications on municipal finance and local government issues were published in Armenia and foreign journals.
Education, Degree
MA, Brandeis University
PhD, Moscow State University
Office location
108W, Paramaz Avedisian Building
Email
[email protected]
Office hours
Saturday, 11-12 am
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Public finance, local governance, intergovernmental finance, decentralization policy, environmental science and policy, development policy and practice, sustainable development
Courses currently taught
- PSIA 343 Public Finance and Budgeting
- PSIA 347 Environmental Science
Hovhannes Nikoghosyan specializes in global order and international security, and has keen interest and research experience in human rights and armed conflicts, international criminal responsibility for erga omnes crimes, as well as Responsibility to Protect. He is a graduate of the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University with MA in International Relations and PhD in Political Science (2011). Before joining AUA in January 2015, he worked as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington DC), Magdalena Yesil Visiting Scholar at Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University (Durham, NC) and has completed an Advanced Certificate Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Medford, MA). Between May 2017 and April 2018 he served as Aide to the President of the Republic of Armenia. Dr. Nikoghosyan is author of a number of peer-reviewed papers and expert reports published in Armenia and abroad.
Education, Degree
PhD, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (2011)
Visiting Scholar, Duke University (2012-13)
Advanced Certificate Program in Public Administration, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2014)
Office location
108W, Paramaz Avedisian Building
Email
[email protected]
Office hours
Weds, 10-11am, by appointment
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Human rights in armed conflicts, international security, strategic communications, Responsibility to Protect
Courses taught
PSIA320 International Relations
PSIA335 International Conflicts in XXI Century
PSIA336 Foreign Policy Analysis
PSIA 366 Government, Politics and the Media
PSIA 101 Introduction to Political Science
Research Activities/Projects
“Foreign policy-making in parliamentary republics: The case of the Republic of Armenia” – AUA Faculty Research Grant (2016-17)
Selected publications
- Hovhannes Nikoghosyan & Vahram Ter-Matevosyan (2022): From ‘revolution’ to war: deciphering Armenia’s populist foreign policy-making process, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2022.2111111
- Nikoghosyan, (2022). Black garden aflame: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Soviet and Russian Press. in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (pp. 1–3). Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2022.2095696 [Book review]
- Armen Gevorgyan, Hovhannes Nikoghosyan (2022). Weaponizing religion and potential consequences for European democratic security. Research Report presented to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (36 pages)
- “Great Power Interventions and the Future of Responsibility to Protect”, Valdai Paper #74, August 2017.
- “Armenia after 25 years of Independence: Maintaining Stability in an Unpredictable Neighborhood”, Russian International Affairs Council, December 2016 (book chapter). (Available in AUA Library)
- “Government failure, atrocity crimes and the role of the International Criminal Court: why not Syria, but Libya”, The International Journal of Human Rights, Published online: 30 Sep 2015. DOI:10.1080/13642987.2015.1082838
- “Global problems for global governance”, Valdai Club Report Series, September 2014. (co-authored)
- The Upheavals in Libya and Syria, and Their Impact on “Responsibility to Protect” Doctrine, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Volume 12(1), Spring 2013.
- How to move forward in Nagorno Karabakh after the Four Day War, ELIAMEP Briefing Notes 48/ 2016.
Hayarpi Papikyan specializes in 19th- and early 20th-century Armenian studies, history and sociology of schooling and institutionalized education, women’s history. She holds a PhD in history and sociology of Education by the Université Paris V – Sorbonne Cité and is attached to the research and scientific center of CERLIS (Centre de recherche sur les liens sociaux) in Paris, France. Her doctoral research and thesis, Education on the edge of Empire: schooling girls and winning public roles for Armenian women in the Caucasus (mid 19th century – early 20th century), brought to light the history of the late-mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth-century education and institutionalized schooling of Armenian girls in the Caucasus. In March 2020, her doctoral thesis received the special mention of the Prize of Robert Mallet in the field of History of education in Paris, France.
Education, Degree
Phd, Université Paris V – Sorbonne Cité
Office location
PAB 117 W
Office hours
Varies depending on teaching schedule.
Email
[email protected]
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Social history, sociology, research design and implementation
Courses currently taught
CHSS 205 Learning, activism, and social movements
CHSS 181 Introduction to Sociology
PG 103 Methods of Political Inquiry
Ongoing Research Projects
Armenian Church parish schools as centres of community and social life in Artsakh 1870-1920
Publications
Papikyan, H. (Upcoming). Maro Nazarbekian ou « la première femme révolutionnaire socialiste au Caucase ». Trajectoire et auto-perception dans l’autobiographie communiste. (Maro Nazarbekian or “the first female socialist revolutionary in the Caucasus”. Trajectory and perceptions in communist autobiography). Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique.
Papikyan, H. & Rogers, R. (Upcoming). Girls’ schools and Empire (1800-1950). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.
Papikyan, H. (2021). Femmes arméniennes et pédagogie fröbelienne: Entre patriotisme éducatif et professionnalisation des institutrices préscolaires. Paedagogica Historica, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2021.1924807
Papikyan, H. (2021, April 13). Premières écoles pour filles au Caucase: Une mission de russification. Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe. https://ehne.fr/fr/encyclopedie/th%C3%A9matiques/%C3%A9ducation-et- formation/%C3%A9ducation-en-milieu-colonial/les-premi%C3%A8res- %C3%A9coles-pour-filles-au-caucase%C2%A0-une-mission-de-russification
Laura Prokić holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology with minors in Psychology and Philosophy from Willamette University and a Master of Public Administration with a focus in Global Leadership and Management from Portland State University. Her research interests include public leadership, youth political participation and leadership, democratization, civil society, and public administration reform in transitioning democracies. She also has an interest in social research, participatory development, and program/policy evaluation. From 2013-2015 she served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, where she trained teachers in new teaching methods and helped local youth address their development priorities. From 2016-2019 she managed the local implementation of U.S. State Department youth leadership exchange programs, helping youth from across Africa, the Middle East, South America, Central/Eastern Europe, the South Pacific, and the U.S. gain skills and connections to become community and global leaders.
Education, Degree
BA Cultural Anthropology, Willamette University
MPA with specialization in Global Leadership and Management, Portland State University
Office location
108W, Paramaz Avedisian Building
Email
[email protected]
Office hours
Varies depending on teaching schedule. Also by appointment.
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Public and Community Leadership, Youth Leadership and Political Participation, Public Administration Reform, Democracy and Democratization, Civil Society, Research Methodology
Courses currently taught
PG102 Introduction to Political Inquiry
PG103 Methods of Political Inquiry
CHSS194 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Research Activities/Projects
Director of AUA Open Center for Leadership and Governance (coming soon)
Publications
Lyons, Laura (2018). “The ‘Necessary Evil’: State and Non-State Sector Interactions in Cuba and Effects on Public Services,” Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 3. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/hgjpa/vol3/iss1/3/
Uroš Prokić specializes in acculturation models, autonomy policy, and issues of national identity in the ex-Yugoslav context. He is particularly interested in the manner in which institutions steer national groups’ attitudes and behaviors. He also focuses on normative issues related to governance and public administration. Dr. Prokic received two BA degrees in Philosophy and Religion from the American Public University, and an MA degree in International Studies from the University of Sydney. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Affairs and Policy from Portland State University (Oregon). Uroš Prokić was previously a researcher and political science lecturer in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, teaching classes in Theories of Comparative Politics, War and Morality, Nationalism, International Politics, International Organizations, and European Politics. His expertise lies in the cross-section between political theory, comparative politics, and international relations.
Education
Ph.D., Portland State University (Oregon), USA
MA, University of Sydney, Australia
BA, American Public University, USA
Office location
135W, Paramaz Avedisian Building
Email
[email protected]
Phone
(+374 60) 61 26 72
Office hours
Thursdays: 12:00-14:00
Wednesdays: 17:00-18:30
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Acculturation models, Minority nationalism, Autonomy policy, Development in ex-Yugoslav space
Courses currently taught
- PSIA 344 Public Policy Analysis
- PSIA 345 Development Policy & Strategy
- PSIA 352 Economics for Political Science
- PG 101 Politics & Governance
Publications:
Recent publications include “How Has Religiosity Influenced the Restrictiveness of Marriage Immigration Policy in Serbia, Denmark, and the United States?” (Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs) and a book review of Marko Grdešić’s text entitled “The Shape of Populism: Serbia before the Dissolution of Yugoslavia” (Journal Southeastern Europe).
Tatevik Movsisyan specializes in international security studies, conflict and cooperation track, and in research methodology, including formal and empirical methods. She received her PhD in International Studies from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) in 2021. Her doctoral research has focused on international crisis bargaining, particularly, the expected gain- and loss-induced preferences driving the escalation of crises to war. Tatevik Movsisyan was awarded EITM certification completing the ICPSR and EITM programs (Universities of Michigan and Houston), as well as completed an advanced program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). She has previously worked for international organizations such as the Council of Europe and the United Nations in Armenia, in political advisory and strategic programming roles.
Education, Degree
PhD, Old Dominion University
Office location
607 Main Building
Email
[email protected]
Phone
(+374 60) 61 25 81
Office hours
By appointment.
Areas of research and teaching specialization
IR Theory, Security Studies, Causes of War, Nuclear Deterrence, International Organizations, Research Methodology, Modeling and Simulation
Courses currently taught
CHSS 183 Statistics for Humanities and Social Sciences
PSIA 101 Introduction to Political Science (starting January 2023)
Research Activities/Projects
“Situationally induced risk and time preferences” ODU grant led by Jesse Richman.
“Cyber-enabled information operations” as part of the cyber-security project at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, & Simulation Center (VMASC) led by Jose Padilla.
Parandzem Sargsyan is a Senior Product Intelligence Analyst at ServiceTitan Armenia with data analysis, visualization, and reporting expertise. Prior to her current position, she was working as an Institutional Research Manager at AUA with the responsibility of planning, organizing, and implementing the University’s timely data reporting. She holds an MBA degree from AUA and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Yerevan State University. Her current research interests include organizational resilience, digital transformation, and business agility.
Courses taught:
- CSE141 – Understanding Data
- CHSS 183 – Statistics for Humanities and Social Sciences
- MGMT 300 – Quantitative Tools for Management