Targeted News Service
March 18, 2010 Thursday 5:52 AM EST
Visiting Fresno State Professor Offers Insider’s View of Armenia
FRESNO, Calif.
California State University Fresno issued the following news release:
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.