Education
1970 - 1976: Yerevan State University, Philological Department, Philologist and Teacher of Armenian Language and Literature
1968 - 1972: Yerevan Musical-Pedagogical College, The Folk Instruments Department

Academic degree
2006: "Music and the Musician in the Armenian Traditional Everyday and Ritual Life", National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, 00.04 professional council
2009: Associate professor

Working experience
2006 - present:lecturer at Yerevan State University, Department of Cultural Studies
2000 - 2007: lecturer at Yerevan State Pedagogical Institute after K. Abovyan, Department of Culture
1993 - 2003: Invited lecturer at Yerevan State University, Department of Ethnography
1988 - present:Senior researcher at National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Institute of Art, Department of Folk Music
1985 - 1993: Scientific editor at “Koultur-Lousavorakan Ashkhatank” journal of the Ministry of Culture (renamed into “Mshakuyt” in 1988)
1986 - 1988: Senior researcher at State Museum of History of Armenia.
1978 – 1986: Senior researcher at State museum of Ethnography, head of Department of social living and spiritual culture
1973 - 1978: Teacher at musical school in Masis town
1970 - 1973: Teacher at musical school in Ararat town

Scientific activities
July 1999 - October 1999: Researcher "Refugees and local residents, the ten-year relationship" (Research conducted by the Armenian center of Ethnological researches).
January 1999 - May 1999: Researcher "Armenian gypsies: traditions and modern realities" project (the Institute of Open Society, (Research conducted by the Armenian center of Ethnological researches, Armenian Fund grant)
January 1998 - March 1988: Researcher "Cultural dialogue for harmonic coexistence" project (NGOC/UNHCR)
November 1997 - December 1977: Anthropologist-Consultant "Poorest of the Poor in Armenia" (World Bank, nationwide qualitative ethnographic study)
July 1996 - November 1996: Field researcher <> (World Bank, nationwide qualitative ethnographic study)
July 1994 - February 1995: Field researcher <> (World Bank, nationwide qualitative ethnographic study)
1994 – 1997: Researcher "Armenian traditional culture and Identity" Armenian culture research project of "Country Rous" organization (Boston, USA) project

Reading courses
Cultural management and marketing, Armenian musical culture, Armenian fete-ritual culture, Cultural tourism, Culturology, Museology

The scope of scientific interests

The contemporary transformations of traditional fete-ritual life.

Issues of identity.

Traditional musical culture.

Urban musical culture.

Museum as a cultural text.

Participation in Grants
September 2010: Member of organizing committee, national course of educational projects Hands-on, national committee of ICOM, the Ministry of Culture RA, "Association of museum workers and friend"
August 2009: Expert, "Museum Management: training by UNESCO/ICOM for specialists of museums.
August 2007: the member of "Museum management" project. Yerevan-Cambridge sister-cities "Community Connections" project of USAID, Boston, USA.
December 2005 - October 2006: the director of <> course development and instructional handbook publishing; Assistance Foundation of Open Society Institute, Armenian office.

Languages
Armenian, Russian, German, English

Professional Membership
2003 - present: Founding president of "Association Museum Workers and Friends" NGO
2009 - present: Chief Editor of annual scientific methodological journal "Museum".
2009 - present: The Member of Armenian National Committee of International Council of Museums(ICOM).