Education
2011 - Dr. of Historical Sciences,
2008 - 2011 PhD. YSU Faculty of History, Chair of Cultural Studies.
2006 - 2008 YSU Chair of Culture. MA of Cultural Studies.
2002 - 2006 YSU Department of Culture. BA of Cultural Studies.
Profession: Cultural Anthropology, pedagogue.

Academic degree
Defended in 2011 PhD, 00.00.06, majoring in "Cultural Studies-Cultural Anthropology".
Thesis topic: The Dynamics of Developing and Preserving Armenian Culture at the Modern Stage (A Cultural Study of the Yerevan Vernissage).
Supervisor: Corresponding member of NAS RA, Ethnographer Leon Abrahamyan.

Affiliation
2009- up to now: Researcher at the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenia, http://iae.am/en/users/hamletmelkumian
2008- up to now: Assistant at the Chair of Cultural Studies

Scholarships and Projects
2016-2019 Informal Economic Practices in the Post-Soviet Caucasus: Traveling Goods and Values in Flea Markets. In “Informal Markets and Trade in Eurasia: Central Asia & Caucasus” project.
2014- (2016) Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN) - “Elites”: definitions, identities, and cultural repertoires. An anthropological approach to recent transformations of social structure of the Armenian and Georgian societies.
2013-2014 Researcher-team member honored ASCN foundation, Project: Everyday Nationalism in Armenia.
2012-2015 Researcher-team member honored by SCS RA, Project: Ethnobotanical traditions of Yezidis in Armenia.
2009 Scholar The Heinrich Böll Foundation South Caucasus.

Courses
Historical Anthropology, Digital Anthropology, Introduction to Cultural Studies.

Membership
2016 up to know, Board member of council for issuing “Cultural Studies” professional degree at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.

Editor
2010-2016 Co-editor of the Habitus Archaeological-Anthropological Collection since 2010

Academic interests
Nationalism and Identity Studies. Anthropology of everyday life. Economic anthropology & Market studies). Anthropology of tourism & souvenirs. Urban Anthropology. Anthropology of social movements. Yezidi studies

Language Skills
Armenian – native;
English – advanced, (TOEFL pbt, AUA, 2008);
Russian - good
Georgian - basic