Ashot Melkonyan

Ashot A. Melkonyan (born 16 February 1961 in Akhalkalak, Javakhk, Georgian SSR) is a historian, professor, and academician at the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Since 2002, he has been the Director of the Institute of History of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

Biography
He graduated from the Faculty of History at the Yerevan State University in 1982, and received his PhD in history at YSU in 1989. Since 2002, he has been a lecturer and Chair of History of Armenia at the Yerevan State University.

Melkonyan is an author of historical studies (including monographs and over 350 articles). The works are devoted mainly to the history of Armenia, the Armenian genocide, Javakhk, the Armenian-Georgian relations, and the historical demography of Armenia. He is a member of the association of historians of the EENI countries.

Awards

 * Prize of Armenia Fund (for his "Erzerum" monography, 1994).
 * Movses Khorenatsi medal (2003).
 * "Haykashen Uzunyan" Prize of Tekeyan Cultural Union (for his "Javakhk in the 19th Century and the 1st Quarter of the 20th Century" monography, 2004).
 * Honorary citizen of Akhalkalak (2009).
 * Andranik Ozanyan medal (2013),

in English

 * Javakhk in the 19th Century and the 1st Quarter of the 20th Century (A Historical Research), Yerevan, 2007, 256 pages.