Kristine Antonyan, an economics lecturer at Yerevan State University in Armenia, is providing an insider’s view of that country as a visiting professor at California State University, Fresno this semester.
Antonyan is a Junior Faculty Development Program grant recipient from the Fulbright Program, an international educational exchange for scholars, which is sponsored by the U.S. government.
At Fresno State, she is interacting with students and making presentations in classes about economies in transition and about the Bologna Process, which is guiding transformation of European education.
Antonyan was placed at Fresno State through her contact with Armenian Studies Program director Barlow Der Mugrdechian, who conducted a Faculty Development Program at Yerevan State University from 1999 to 2004.
Antonyan graduated from Yerevan State with a specialty in economics and pursued her Ph.D. there. Her dissertation was “Advanced issues Of a Long-Run Sustained Economic Growth (With the Example of Armenia).” She has published articles in Russian and Armenian journals and has participated in various international conferences.
She is writing a textbook, “State Regulation of Economy,” and hopes to write an article detailing the differences in the U.S. and Armenia educational systems.
Antonyan will return to Yerevan in May.
(Mari Koshkakaryan, staff writer for Hye Sharzhoom student newspaper supplement, contributed to this report.)
