Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Primary Phone: +37491506494
Baghramyan 40
American University of Armenia
Yerevan
Armenia
ABOUT
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, Associate Professor, Program Chair of Political Science and International Affairs, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University of Armenia. He has earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Bergen University, Norway and a Master’s degree in history from Lund University, Sweden. He is Candidate of Historical Sciences at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenia. Aside from his full-time position at AUA, he serves as Head of the Turkish Studies Department (part-time) at the Institute for Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and a Visiting Professor at Duke University, NC. His previous articles have been published in: “Nations and Nationalism”, “Europe-Asia Studies”, “Turkish Studies”, “Middle Eastern Studies”, “Insight Turkey”, “Eurasian Geography and Economics”, “Turkish Review”, “Caucasus Survey”, “Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies”, “Iran and the Caucasus”, “Diaspora Studies”, “Études Arméniennes Contemporaines” etc. Notable among his publications is the award-winning monograph Islam in the Social and Political Life of Turkey (1970-2001), 2008, and the History of the Turkish Republic, 2014 (co-author). His most recent monograph is “Turkey, Kemalism, and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation”, New York & London. Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Foreign Relations
Historiography
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Caucasus
Armenia
Former Soviet Union
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Kemalism
Political Islam
Turkish Foreign Policy In The Caucasus & EU
Languages
Armenian (native)
Russian (fluent)
English (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Norwegian (fluent)
Education
DPhil
| 2017
| History
| University of Bergen, Norway
PhD
| 2004
| Turkish
| Institute of Oriental Studies
MA
| 2002
| East and Southeast Asian Studies
| Lund University, Sweden
BA
| 1999
| History
| Yerevan State University
Abstracts
Transnational History of Kemalism: Turkey and the Soviet Union
