Vahram Ter-Matevosyan

Vahram Ter-Matevosyan is Assistant Professor at the American University of Armenia and he is also the Head of the Turkish Studies Department at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He received his PhD from the University of Bergen (Norway), Master’s degree from Lund University (Sweden), Candidate of historical sciences degree from the Institute of Oriental Studies and Yerevan State University (Armenia). He was Visiting Professor at Duke University, N.C. (2016), Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Calif. (2009-2010) and Visiting Doctoral Student at the University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. (2005). He authored an award-winning monograph Islam in the Social and Political Life of Turkey, 1970-2001 in 2008 and co-authored History of Turkish Republic in 2014. His research articles have been published in several publications including Europe-Asia Studies, Turkish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Insight Turkey, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Turkish Review, Diaspora Studies, and others.