Education
1963 - 1967: History faculty of Yerevan State University
1970 - 1973: post-graduate at History faculty of Yerevan State University

Scientific degree
1986: PhD on “The Family and Rituals of the Armenians from Aghdzninq” (Historico-ethnographic study)
2008: Doctor of Philosophy - “The Marital, Nuptial Customs and Rituals of the Armenians from Aghdzninq”

Academic status
1988: Associate Professor
2010: Professor

Work experience
1967 - 2013: Lecturer at History faculty of Yerevan State University
1998 - 2013: Lecturer at Ijevan branch of Yerevan State University

Academic courses
Ethnography; Armenian Ethnography; the Armenian Socio-Normative Culture; the Armenian Humanitarian Culture; Museology and Archive Studies; the History of Primitive Society; Ancient, Old Medieval Ethnographic Data on Armenia and Armenians

Scale of scientific interests
Armenian Ethnography; the Ethnocultural Description of Western Armenians; the Armenian Historiography and Ethnographic Sources

Grants
2009 - 2011: Armenians of Aghdznik

Languages
Russian (good), French (can read and translate with the help of dictionary)

Professional membership
Member of academic council of History faculty at Yerevan State University; member of academic council at Ijevan branch of Yerevan State University; member of editorial board of scientific journal “Akunk”

Rewards
Diploma 1971 by the Secondary and Higher Education Minster of Soviet Armenia
Diploma 2009 by the rector of Yerevan State University
Letter of Appreciation ( N 423 )2009. 10. 12 by the president of the Republic of Armenia
Letter of Appreciation 2011 by the governor of Tavush region
“Catholicos of All Armenians Vazken I” Medal (0122) 2013.03.31 by Mashtots educational, cultural centre of the Republic of Armenia
Diploma 2013. 18. 09 by the governor of Tavush region
Diploma 2013.23.09 by the Academic council of Ijevan branch of Yerevan State University