 stephan astourian stephan astourian is executive director of the armenian studies program and adjunct assistant professor of history at the university of californiaberkeley prior to and after earning his phd from the university of california los angeles dr astourian has taught at california state university long beach at the university of michigan ann arbor and ucla he has been at uc berkeley since the fall of 1998 dr astourian has published a number of articles about the armenian genocide armenian ottoman and azerbaijani history and politics and current issues relating to armenians in the homeland and the diaspora he was the past editor of jusur the ucla journal of middle eastern studies he is a member of the academic board of the zoryan institute of the advisory committee of the caucasus and central asia program institute of slavic east european and eurasian studies uc berkeley and of the center for contemporary armenian studies paris france  