Role: Editor

Jirair Libaridian currently holds the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He specializes in Armenia, the Caucasus, and the Near East. From 1991 to 1997, Dr. Libaridian served as adviser, and then senior adviser to the former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrossian, as First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1994). He taught previously at a number of universities, and has lectured and written extensively.

George A. Bournoutian is Professor of East European and Middle Eastern Studies at Iona College, New York. He has taught Iranian history at UCLA and Armenian History at Columbia University, New York University, University of Connecticut, Tufts University, Rutgers University, Ramapo College, and Glendale Community College. He is the author of eleven books, including The Khanate of Erevan Under Qajar Rule and A Concise History of the Armenian People. His translations of primary sources such as The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete; Abraham of Erevan’s History of the Wars: 1721-1738 and documents such as Armenians and Russia, A Documentary Record,1626-1796, Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, A Documentary Record, 1797-1889, have received laudatory reviews in TLS, BSOAS and other important publications. Professor Bournoutian is a member of the Society for Iranian Studies and a member of the Society for Armenian Studies. He is also a frequent contributor to encyclopedias, various scholarly journals, and collections. His work has been cited in major publications and he is considered a world authority on the history of eastern Armenia and Transcaucasia in the Modem Period (1400-1900). South Asia, Central Asia, Russia, Australia, and South America. Professor Boumoutian was born in Isfahan and grew up in Iran. He received his High school diploma from the well-known Andisheh (Don Bosco) institution in Tehran. His B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are from UCLA where he studied with Drs. Richard G. Hovannisian and Amin Banani. Professor Boumoutian has given numerous academic lectures on Armenia and Eastern Europe and has lectured at virtually every Armenian community center in the United States, Canada, and Australia. He is fluent in Armenian, Persian, Russian, and Polish and has a reading command of French and Azeri. He is also very involved in studying and writing on classical music (piano repertoire) and the world of cinema. Professor Boumoutian accompanies his senior and graduate students on annual trips to Armenia and Transcaucasia, Middle East and Iran, Africa, Southeast Asia.

An award-winning poet, George Christinian was born and educated in Armenia. A former professor of literature, he is the author of 30 books and has written and produced 50 documentary films. Christinian has lived in Los Angeles since 1990. He is the chairman of the Armenian Writers' Association of California.