Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia

Corresponding member of National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia (2006), Cand. hist. sc. (1978, Institute of Ethnography, USSR Academy of Sciences). Honorary Worker of Culture, Republic of Armenia (2009). Since 2005, chair of the Department of Modern Ethnology (from 2023 onward, Department of Cultural Anthropology) at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia. Editorial board member for Istoriko-filologicheskii zhurnal (Journal of History and Philology) and Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies. Scholarly interests: comparative mythology, social and cultural anthropology. Author of over 150 publications including books on Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity (2001, co-auth.), Armenian Identity in a Changing World (2006), “The Color of Pomegranates” of Sergei Parajanov: Cinematic Painting, Poetics, and Symbolism (in Russian), and others.