Ashot Melkonyan
Ashot A. Melkonyan 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.
Biography
He graduated from the Faculty of History at Yerevan State University in 1982 and received his PhD in history at YSU in 1989. 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 European Educational Networking Institute countries.Melkonyan is an author of several historical studies. The works are devoted mainly to the history of Armenia, the Armenian genocide, Javakheti, and Armenian–Georgian relations.
Awards
- Prize of Armenia Fund
- Movses Khorenatsi medal
- Haykashen Uzunyan Prize of Tekeyan Cultural Union
- Honorary citizen of Akhalkalak
- Andranik Ozanyan medal