OUR BOARD
Meet the People Behind the Work
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PROF. LORI KHATCHADOURIAN
Co-Founder
Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University.
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PROF. ADAM T. SMITH
Co-Founder
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
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ELEN AGHEKYAN
Board Member
Graduate Student, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
OUR ADVISORY BOARD
Meet the People Who Guide Our Activities
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DR. RUBEN BADALYAN
Chief Advisor
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan
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ARMINE HARUTYUNYAN
Executive Director ACHF
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan
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RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN
Board Member
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
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PROF. IAN LINDSAY
Board Member
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University
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DR. MAUREEN MARSHALL
Board Member
Associate Director, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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DR. ALAN GREENE
Board Member
Visiting Scholar, Cornell University
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ARMEN TONIKIAN
Board Member
President & CEO Arte LLC
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ELIZABETH FAGAN
Board Member
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Truman State University
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MASCOT
Rudolf
Found on a cylinder seal from the site of Gegharot, Rudolf serves a our official mascot.