Папазян Деннис
Papazian Dennis R.
Папазян Деннис
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Dennis R. Papazian
Professor of History The University of Michigan, Dearborn Armenia and Armenians
CENTER FOR ARMENIAN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION: THE DIRECTOR
Dr. Dennis R. Papazian, the Director of the Armenian Research Center, is a man of many accomplishments. His academic curriculum vitae is over forty-four pages long.
He has been a full Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn since 1973. While directing the Armenian Research Center and engaging in academic research, as well as being active in community activities, he also teaches courses in Russian and Armenian history. Dr. Papazian served four years as chairman of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, four years as chairman of the Department of Social Sciences, and four years as the head of the College of Arts, Sciences and Letters. He took a leave of absence from the University after heading the liberal arts college and served four years as Executive Director (as well as co-chairman of the Board of Directors) of the Armenian Assembly of America in Washington, D.C. On returning to the University, he served five years as the Director of Graduate Studies before founding the Armenian Research Center and becoming its director.
He is very visible in the print and the radio telecommunications media, with hundreds of interviews on radio and television and a dozen OpEd columns in newspapers. He also frequently speaks to academic and community groups and writes on Russian and CIS issues as Professor of History, and on Armenian issues as Director of the Research Center. He is listed in Who's Who in America.
Dr. Papazian is also active in Washington, D.C. He was invited to the White House twice the summer of 1992, for example, with a group of Armenian-American leaders to meet with members of the National Security Council, notably with General Brent Scowcroft, personal advisor to President George Bush, and Nick Burns, who was in charge of the affairs of the former Soviet Union. He has also participated, during the 1992-93 academic year, in a number of round-table discussions at the prestigious Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C. The guest expert at the first meeting was Mr. Jack Kolt, the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia of the National Intelligence Council. Other equally prestigious speakers have made presentations. The Director also participated in the spring of 1993 in a day-long meeting with various officials from Azerbaijan and a "deep background" meeting with very high officials at the Department of State. Dr. Papazian also met with President Clinton and Dr. Anthony Lake, National Security Advisor to the President, in the summer of 1994.
Dr. Papazian is also active in Armenian community and Armenian church affairs in general. He served eight years as Chairman of the Diocesan Assembly of the American Diocese of the Armenian Church (Eastern). He has served eight years as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the St. Nersess Armenian Theological Seminary. He has served for three years as the president of the Society for Armenian Studies and four years as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies. He served for more than twenty years as member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). He served for eight years as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alex Manoogian Cultural Fund of the AGBU, and is a member of many more Armenian organizations in America. He is a frequent and much sought after speaker at Armenian functions and rallies.
He is currently active in the Knights of Vartan, a North American Armenian fraternal society with lodges all over the United States and Canada. He is the past Commander of the Nareg Lodge, Detroit, and past Mid-West District Representative of the Grand Council. He involves the more than 2,300 members of the Knights of Vartan in fundraising and in anti-defamation efforts in defense of Armenians and Armenian issues. He is also actively involved in the American political process. He has contacts with most Michigan congressmen and senators. He is also well-known to many non-Michigan congressmen and senators in Washington, D.C.
Sept 23, 1994
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Dr. Papazian and the Armenian Church
Over the past 50+ years, Dr. Dennis R. Papazian has been active in many ways in the affairs of the Armenian Church. He has served in the Armenian Church Youth Organization, on the Diocesan Council, and on the Board of Directors of St. Nersess Seminary, and as an elector at the 1995 (Karekin I, of blessed memory) and 1999 (Karekin II, the current Catholicos) elections of the Catholicos of all Armenians at Etchmiadzin.. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Diocese of the Armenian Church in America (Eastern United States).
In April of 1995, Dr. Papazian participated in the election of Catholicos Karekin I. His recollections of that trip are included here.
In reviews of two recent books, one by Archbishop Khajag Barsamian and the other by Archbishop Mesrob Ashjian, Dr. Papazian gives his views on Church Unity.
Also of interest is Armenia and the Armenian Church, an essay written in 1987.
Articles
"The Changing American View of the Armenian Question: An Interpretation," Armenian Review 39, No. 4-156 (Winter 1986).
"Armenians," in Ethnic Groups in Michigan, Vol. 2 of The Peoples of Michigan (Detroit, MI: The Ethnos Press, 1983).
"Armenians," in The Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and the Soviet Union, Vol. 3
" `Misplaced Credulity': Contemporary Turkish Attempts to Refute the Armenian Genocide," Armenian Review 45, No. 1-2/177-178 (Spring-Summer 1992). (Revised 2001).
"Armenians in America," in Het Christelijk Oosten 52, No. 3-4 (2000).
Conference Papers
Nagorno-Karabagh and Perestroika A paper given at a 1990 Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Political Use of Oral History A paper given at the 25th annual Oral History Association meeting, Cambridge, MA, November 9, 1990.
Artificial Intelligence A paper given at a 1992 conference in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Contributions of Armenian Jerusalem to Armenians in America A paper given at the 30th Anniversary of Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999 (soon to appear in print in the Jerusalem Armenian Studies Series). This paper also contains an extensive bibliography on Armenians and Jerusalem.
Modern Genocide: The Curse of the Nation State and Ideological Political Parties A paper presented at the Conference on Genocide: History and Prevention, November 8-9, 2001, Vienna, Austria.
Book reviews
Review of the first volume of United States Official Documents on the Armenian Genocide
Review of Rouben Adalian's From Humanism to Rationalism
Review of Manoog Somakian's Empires in Conflict
Review of Marderos Deranian's Hussenig
Review of Edward Alexander's The Serpent and the Bee
Review of George A. Bournoutian's Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, 1797-1889: A Documentary Record
Review of Richard G. Hovannisian, ed. Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide
Review of A.E. Redgate, The Armenians
Review of Richard G. Hovannisian, ed. The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times
Review of Anny P. Bakalia, Armenian-Americans: From Being to Feeling Armenia; Keith P. Dyrud, The Quest for the Rusyn Soul: The Politics of Religion and Culture in Eastern Europe and in America, 1890-World World War I; and Myron B. Kuropas, The Ukranian Americans: Roots and Aspirations, 1884-1954
Interviews
When is Genocide not Genocide? Recognising the Armenian Genocide, eighty-nine years one This is also online as a pdf file.
Additional Writings
Yeltsin & Reform
Why the Armenian Genocide is still relevant today This is a guest column that appeared in the April 21, 1997, issue of the Detroit Free Press
Speeches
1993 Martyrs' Day Speech at Times Square
1996 Martyrs' Day Speech at Times Square
Dr. Papazian and the Armenian Church
Dennis R. Papazian
Dr. Dennis R. Papazian, is the Director of the Armenian Research Center: University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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