Raymond Haroutioun Kévorkian (born February 22, 1953) is a French Armenian historian.[1] He is a Foreign Member of Armenian National Academy of Sciences. Kevorkian has a PhD in history (1980), and is a professor.[2]
Biography
Kévorkian finished the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes - Saint-Denis, where he teaches and serves as Research director at the French Institute of Geopolitics (Institut Français de Géopolitique).[3][1] From 1986 to 2012, Kévorkian was the director of Nubarian Library [fr], Paris. He is the editor of d'Histoire arménienne contemporaine journal.
Kévorkian is the author of The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History, "an exhaustive and authoritative account of the origins, events, and consequences of the Armenian Genocide".[4] It was originally published in French in 2006. The book is the first to make extensive use of the archives of the Nubarian Library.[5]
In 2010, Kévorkian received the Presidential Award from Armenian President Serge Sarkisian in recognition of his contributions as a scholar. He is a member of Société de Géographie and a board member of International Association for Armenian Studies.[6]