Ruben Safrastyan information

Ruben Safrastyan
Ռուբեն Սաֆրաստյան
Born	(1955-10-05) October 5, 1955 (age 68) Yerevan, Armenian SSR
Citizenship	Armenia
Alma mater	Yerevan State University
Spouse	Lilit Safrastyan
Children	Aram Safrastyan Arthur Safrastyan
Awards	Movses Khorenatsi medal
Scientific career
Fields	Turkish studies Ottoman studies Middle Eastern studies Regional studies
Institutions	Armenian National Academy of Sciences Yerevan State University
Thesis	Doctrine of Ottomanism in the political life of the Ottoman Empire (50s and 70s of 19th century)  (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Hovhannes Injikyan

Ruben Arami Safrastyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Արամի Սաֆրաստյան; born 5 October 1955) is an Armenian historian and Turkologist who specializes in Turkish, Ottoman, genocide, Middle Eastern and regional studies. He is currently a professor of history and Turkish studies at Yerevan State University and head researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, of which he is a full member. He was director of the Institute of Oriental Studies from 2006 to 2020. He has also served as a counsellor of the Armenian Embassy in Germany.^[1]

Safrastyan has authored or edited more than 30 books and more than 200 articles and papers.^[2] He is also the founding editor of the academic periodicals Turkic and Ottoman Studies (since 2002) and Contemporary Eurasia (since 2012),^[3] as well as editor of the academic yearbook Peoples and Countries of the Near and Middle East (Yerevan, Armenia).