Levon Abrahamian
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Abrahamian was born in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia on January 2, 1947.[1] He graduated from Yerevan State University (YSU) with M.S. in biophysics in 1970[1][2] and from the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1978 as Candidate of Sciences in Cultural and Social Anthropology.[2] He joined the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia in 1978,[3] initially working as a junior researcher until 1988 and then as senior researcher.[1] In 2005 he headed the Institute's Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies.[1][3]
Abrahamian has taught at YSU since 1990.[4][2] He has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh (1994), Columbia University (2001), University of California, Los Angeles (2008), and University of California, Berkeley (1997 and 2015).[2]
In November 2018 Abrahamian was elected president of the Board of Trustees of the Matenadaran.[2][5]
