Education
1963 - 1967: Yerevan State University, Faculty of History

Scientific Degree
Ph.D. dissertation on “Silkworm breeding culture by the Armenians” Yerevan 1975

Work Experience
1974: Lecturer in Yerevan State University
1978: Associate Professor (Docent)

Field Experience
Ethnographic expeditions in Armenia

Teaching Courses
Problems of ethnography, Armenian ethnography, Ethnography of Eastern Slavs, Methods of ethnographic investigation, Economic life of the Armenians, Ethnography of the city

Spheres of Scientific interests
Consuming and similar economies, Armenian folk believes, Armenian literature and folklore as an ethnographic source

Languages
Armenian, Russian (fluent), German (reading)