Ani Babaian

Ani Babaian is an independent artist, art conservator, and researcher whose work centers on heritage, identity, and visual culture. She has undertaken conservation projects for Armenian churches in Iran and the United States, including the seventeenth-century St. Amenaprkich (Vank) Cathedral in Isfahan. She has published scholarly articles on Armenian and Persian art and contributed essays to edited volumes, including Armenian Communities of Persia/Iran, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian (Mazda Publishers, 2021), and Armenian Frescoes: Mural Paintings of New Julfa, edited by Karen Matevosyan (Yerevan, 2019). Since 2013, she has been affiliated with the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), where she serves as Director of the Mardigian Library.