Richard G. Hovannisian

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Richard G. Hovannisian is an American historian and scholar. He was born and raised in Tulare, California. He received his B.A.(1954) and M.A.(1958) degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D.(1966) from University of California, Los Angeles. He was also Associate Professor of History at Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, from 1966 to 1969. In 1987, Professor Hovannisian was appointed as the first holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at the UCLA. Hovanissian is a Guggenheim Fellow who has received numerous honors for his scholarship, civic activities, and advancement of Armenian Studies. His biographical entries are included in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World among other scholarly and literary reference works.^[1]

The Director of the Armenian Research Center in University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dr. Dennis R. Papazian commended Hovannisian in a recent review:

"Richard Hovannisian has done genocide and Holocaust scholarship a great service by producing a collection of fresh essays which expand our knowledge and explore revealing facets heretofore ignored."^[2]

Hovannisian is the father of Raffi Hovannisian, former Foreign Minister of Armenia and has been very critical of the current authorities in Armenia.^[3]

[edit] Selected writings

• The Republic of Armenia, Volume 1 (1971) and Volume II (1982), Vols. III & IV (1996) U.C. Press
• The Armenian Holocaust, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Armenian Heritage Press (1980)
• The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, 2 vols. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997
• Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998
• Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2004)

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[edit] External links

• Full bibliography