Rouben Paul Adalian is the Director of the Armenian National Institute in

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, and a professor at the

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and at

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Career

Adalian received his PhD in history from the

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in 1987; his dissertation focused on Nicholas Adontz. He is the author of many scientific works and articles, including ''Historical Dictionary of Armenia'' and ''From Humanism to Rationalism: Armenian Scholarship in the Nineteenth Century'', where Adalian "has provided a useful overview of an important topic which has not received its just attention in the English language". In his review of the ''Historical Dictionary of Armenia'', Ladis K.D. Kristof wrote that it is "highly successful in providing us with a broad and reliable socio-historical background to the politically still quite unsettled and economically devastated present day Armenia." He is the editor of ''Armenia and Karabagh Factbook'',Rouben Paul Adalian, Abril Books
/ref> and associate editor of award-winning ''Encyclopedia of Genocide''.

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