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PRESS RELEASE
February 26, 2007
American University of Armenia Corporation
300 Lakeside Drive, 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Telephone: (510) 987-9452
Fax: (510) 208-3576
Contact: Gaiane Khachatrian
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.aua.am <http://www.aua.am/>
AUA Appoints Dr. Lucig Danielian Provost and Vice President
Oakland, CA - The Board of Trustees of the American University of Armenia
Corporation (AUAC) has approved the appointment of Dr. Lucig Danielian as
Provost and Vice President. Dr. Danielian serves as chief academic and
operations officer for the University in this new position.
Dr. Lucig Danielian has been on faculty at AUA since 1995, has served as the
Associate Dean and then Dean of the School of Political Science and
International Affairs, and as its Director has developed the Turpanjian
Center for Policy Analysis into a successful research institution. She is
an active member of several academic and professional organizations and
serves on the boards of several Armenian organizations and publications,
including the Open Society Institute Armenia Foundation which she chairs.
AUA President, Dr. Haroutune Armenian, welcomed Dr. Danielian in her new
position, "Dr. Danielian's strong academic and leadership credentials, her
research and administrative abilities, and last, but not least, her genuine
interest and unconditional dedication to AUA has always been appreciated by
the University's community. She has dedicated much of her professional life
to AUA and serving the institution as Provost and Vice President is a
natural continuation of her commitment to the achievement of the
University's mission."
Dr. Lucig Danielian earned her Doctoral Degree in Communications from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and was a faculty member at the
University at Albany, State University of New York, from 1988-1994 where she
received a University Faculty Fellowship for research on mass communication
and democratic movements in Armenia, USSR. She has been the recipient of
the Harvard University Goldsmith Research Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, an
IREX Advanced Research Fellowship, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of
the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned
Societies Joint Committee on Soviet Studies.
Dr. Danielian has published in journals such as the American Journal of
Political Science and the Journal of Communication, is the author of several
book chapters and has many publications directly related to Armenia and
public policy.
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The American University of Armenia Corporation (AUAC) is registered as a
non-profit educational organization in both Armenia and the United States
and is affiliated with the Regents of the University of California.
Receiving major support from the AGBU, AUA offers instruction leading to the
Masters Degree in eight graduate programs. For more information about AUA,
visit www.aua.am.
February 26, 2007
American University of Armenia Corporation
300 Lakeside Drive, 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Telephone: (510) 987-9452
Fax: (510) 208-3576
Contact: Gaiane Khachatrian
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.aua.am <http://www.aua.am/>
AUA Appoints Dr. Lucig Danielian Provost and Vice President
Oakland, CA - The Board of Trustees of the American University of Armenia
Corporation (AUAC) has approved the appointment of Dr. Lucig Danielian as
Provost and Vice President. Dr. Danielian serves as chief academic and
operations officer for the University in this new position.
Dr. Lucig Danielian has been on faculty at AUA since 1995, has served as the
Associate Dean and then Dean of the School of Political Science and
International Affairs, and as its Director has developed the Turpanjian
Center for Policy Analysis into a successful research institution. She is
an active member of several academic and professional organizations and
serves on the boards of several Armenian organizations and publications,
including the Open Society Institute Armenia Foundation which she chairs.
AUA President, Dr. Haroutune Armenian, welcomed Dr. Danielian in her new
position, "Dr. Danielian's strong academic and leadership credentials, her
research and administrative abilities, and last, but not least, her genuine
interest and unconditional dedication to AUA has always been appreciated by
the University's community. She has dedicated much of her professional life
to AUA and serving the institution as Provost and Vice President is a
natural continuation of her commitment to the achievement of the
University's mission."
Dr. Lucig Danielian earned her Doctoral Degree in Communications from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and was a faculty member at the
University at Albany, State University of New York, from 1988-1994 where she
received a University Faculty Fellowship for research on mass communication
and democratic movements in Armenia, USSR. She has been the recipient of
the Harvard University Goldsmith Research Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, an
IREX Advanced Research Fellowship, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of
the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned
Societies Joint Committee on Soviet Studies.
Dr. Danielian has published in journals such as the American Journal of
Political Science and the Journal of Communication, is the author of several
book chapters and has many publications directly related to Armenia and
public policy.
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The American University of Armenia Corporation (AUAC) is registered as a
non-profit educational organization in both Armenia and the United States
and is affiliated with the Regents of the University of California.
Receiving major support from the AGBU, AUA offers instruction leading to the
Masters Degree in eight graduate programs. For more information about AUA,
visit www.aua.am.