Team Members

Ruben Badalyan

Ruben Badalyan is a founder and the Armenian co-director of Project ArAGATS. He is a Doctor of Historical Sciences in the Academy of Sciences of the...

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Adam T. Smith

Adam T. Smith is a founder of Project ArAGATS and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. Smith holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona's...

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Lori Khatchadourian

Lori Khatchadourian is the Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in archaeology and Visiting Assistant Professor in anthropology at Cornell University. She holds a PhD in classical archaeology from...

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Ian Lindsay

Ian Lindsay has worked in Armenia as a member of Project ArAGATS since 2000. He recently received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa...

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Elizabeth G. A. Fagan

Elizabeth is a dual-degree Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, in the History and Anthropology Departments, focusing on ancient history and archaeology. She...

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Alan Greene

Alan Greene is a Ph.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology and has been a member of Project ArAGATS since the 2003...

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Armine Harutyunyan

Armine Harutyunyan is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan.  In addition to being a member of Project ArAGATS since 2002,...

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Belinda Monahan

Dr. Belinda Monahan received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University....

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Maureen E. Marshall

Maureen E. Marshall is a graduate student in the Anthropology Department at the University of Chicago, studying bioarchaeology and mortuary analysis. She has been a...

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Armine Hayrapetyan

Armine Hayrapetyan is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan.  She has been a member of Project ArAGATS since 2000, conducting...

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Roman Hovsepyan

Dr. Roman Hovsepyan (Paleobotanist, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenia) has been a member of Project ArAGATS since 2005. As one of the Caucasus region's leading...

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Kathryn Franklin

Kate Franklin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago, and has been with Project ArAGATS since 2008, when she excavated in the...

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Samuel Haroutunian

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David Peterson

David Peterson received his PhD from the Department of anthropology at the University of Chicago...

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Arkady Karakhanian

Arkady Karakhanian is the director of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.  He is a Doctor of Science in addition...

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