Hayk Demoyan

Dr. Hayk Demoyan is the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) and a U.S. Fulbright visiting scholar at the Davis center for Russian and Eurasian Studies of Harvard University, where he researches identity transformation processes in the South Caucasus. Demoyan is also the head of the scientific council of the AGMI and the chief editor of the International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies. He is a graduate of Yerevan State University (1998) and received his degree of Doctor of historical sciences from the Armenian National Academy of Sciences in 2012. From 2011 to 2015, Demoyan was the Secretary of the State Commission on the coordination of the events dedicated to the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. He is the author of 12 books and more than 40 academic articles. In 2018, he published Armenian Legacy in America: 400-Year Heritage, a volume dedicated to the arrival of the first Armenian in Virginia back in 1618.