Hrach Martirosyan

is currently a Lecturer of Modern Eastern Armenian and Classical Armenian at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)

Hrach Martirosyan, born in 1964, studied Armenian language and literature in Vanadzor (Armenia). His PhD dissertation at Leiden University (promoter: Weitenberg; project leader: Lubotsky) was published in 2010 (“Etymological dictionary of the Armenian inherited lexicon”). From 2009 to 2010 he was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan. Dr. Martirosyan was a researcher or a guest lecturer in Yerevan, Vanadzor, Oxford, Pavia, Moscow, Leiden, and Los Angeles. From 2015 to 2017 he worked at Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna on “Iranian personal names in Armenian collateral tradition” (project leader: Sadovski). Dr. Martirosyan carries out an online course on the History of the Armenian language at his website “Hayerenagitut‘yan akademia.” Since 2008 he has also been working on his project “HayaSSA: Hiking Summer School of Armenology.”