Razmik Panossian

An ethnic Armenian, Panossian was born in Beirut, Lebanon and raised in Canada in a family "engaged with [Armenian] community affairs."{{cite book|last=Panossian|first=Razmik|title=The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars|year=2006|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780231139267|page=xiv|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/armeniansfromkin00razm}} He is fluent in English, French, and Armenian.{{cite news|title=Gulbenkian Foundation Appoints Panossian Armenian Communities Director|url=http://asbarez.com/107862/gulbenkian-foundation-appoints-panossian-armenian-communities-director/|accessdate=2 November 2013|newspaper=Asbarez|date=24 January 2013}} He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2002. His thesis was titled "The evolution of multilocal national identity and the contemporary politics of nationalism: Armenia and its diaspora."{{cite web|last1=Panossian|first1=Razmik|title=The evolution of multilocal national identity and the contemporary politics of nationalism : Armenia and its diaspora|publisher=British Library Board|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399000|date=2002|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026171708/http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399000|archivedate=2017-10-26}}

He was director of policy at the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development and has served as an international consultant, including at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He has lectured at the LSE and at the SOAS, University of London. Panossian, currently based in Portugal, has been the director of the department of Armenian communities for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since 2013.{{cite news|last=Barsoumian|first=Nanore|title=A Bold New Plan: Interview with Razmik Panossian|url=http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/06/13/bold-new-plan/|accessdate=20 July 2014|work=Armenian Weekly|date=13 June 2014}}

Panossian is the author of The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars ({{ISBN|9780231139267}}), published by the Columbia University Press in 2006.{{cite web|title=Razmik Panossian Director Armenian Communities Dept|url=http://www.gulbenkian.pt/index.php?section=24&artId=4102&langId=2|publisher=Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation|accessdate=2 November 2013}} The book was widely acclaimed for its extensive and balanced coverage of Armenian history and national identity.{{cite journal|last1=Legvold|first1=Robert|authorlink1=Robert Legvold|title=The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars|journal=Foreign Affairs|date=2006|volume=85|issue=6|page=174|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2006-11-01/armenians-kings-and-priests-merchants-and-commissars|jstor=20032187}} James R. Russell praised the book in his review as the "most meticulously researched and scholarly study of the development of Armenian national identity ever written in any language; and it is also the best general study of the Armenians I have read."{{cite journal|last1=Russell|first1=James R.|authorlink1=James R. Russell|title=Review: The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars by Razmik Panossian|journal=The American Historical Review|date=December 2007|volume=112|issue=5|pages=1654–1656|doi=10.1086/ahr.112.5.1654|jstor=40007282}} Levon Chorbajian wrote that despite his slight objection, the book is "a remarkably balanced, empirically sound, and theoretically engaging one."{{cite journal|last1=Chorbajian|first1=Levon|authorlink1=Levon Chorbajian|title=Review: The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars by Razmik Panossian|journal=Slavic Review|date=Winter 2007|volume=66|issue=4|pages=750+751|doi=10.2307/20060403|jstor=20060403|s2cid=164265355 }} William Safran wrote of the book: "a first-rate piece of scholarship. It is exhaustively documented; its footnote references alone are accompanied by details that greatly amplify and complement the text, and the provision of population statistics and other hard data is balanced by numerous poetic evocations of Armenian feelings. The book may well serve as a model for the study of other diaspora nations."{{cite journal|last1=Safran|first1=William|authorlink1=William Safran|title=A Review of: "Razmik Panossian, The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars"|journal=Nationalism and Ethnic Politics|date=2007|volume=13|issue=3|pages=493–496|doi=10.1080/13537110701451728|s2cid=142350925}}

• Panossian, Razmik (2006). The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|0-231-13926-8}}.{{Cite book|last=Panossian, Razmik.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/637197421|title=The Armenians : from kings and priests to merchants and commissars|date=2006|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0-231-51133-7|location=New York|oclc=637197421}}

• Schwartz, Donald V; Panossian, Razmik (1994). Nationalism and history: the politics of nationbuilding in post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Toronto, Ont.: Center for Russian and East European Studies. {{ISBN|978-0-9697723-0-9}}. OCLC 925549193.

• Panossian, Razmik (2004). "Homeland–diaspora relations and identity differences." The Armenians: Past and Present in the Making of National Identity.{{Cite book|last1=Herzig|first1=Edmund|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8WRAgAAQBAJ|title=The Armenians: Past and Present in the Making of National Identity|last2=Kurkchiyan|first2=Marina|date=2004-11-10|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-79837-6|language=en}}
• Panossian, Razmik. "Courting a diaspora: Armenia-diaspora relations since 1998." In International Migration and Sending Countries, pp. 140-168. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2003.{{Citation|last=Panossian|first=Razmik|title=Courting a Diaspora: Armenia-Diaspora Relations since 1998|date=2003|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230512429_7|work=International Migration and Sending Countries|pages=140–168|place=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|doi=10.1057/9780230512429_7|isbn=978-1-349-50812-9|access-date=2020-09-05}}
• Panossian, Razmik. "Post-Soviet Armenia. Nationalism and its Discontent (s)." After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States, ed. Lowell W. Barrington (2006): 225-247.
• Panossian, Razmik. "The diaspora and the Karabagh movement: oppositional politics between the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Armenian National Movement." In The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh, pp. 155-177. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2001.{{Citation|last=Panossian|first=Razmik|title=The Diaspora and the Karabagh Movement: Oppositional Politics between the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Armenian National Movement|date=2001|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230508965_6|work=The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh|pages=155–177|place=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|doi=10.1057/9780230508965_6|isbn=978-1-349-41594-6|access-date=2020-09-05}}

• {{cite journal|last=Panossian|first=Razmik|title=Between ambivalence and intrusion: Politics and identity in Armenia-diaspora relations|journal=Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies|date=1998|volume=7|issue=2|pages=149–196|doi=10.1353/dsp.1998.0011|s2cid=144037630}}
• {{cite journal|last=Panossian|first=Razmik|title=The Irony of Nagorno-Karabakh: Formal Institutions versus Informal Politics|journal=Regional & Federal Studies|date=2001|volume=11|issue=3|pages=143–164|doi=10.1080/714004708|s2cid=145643230}}
• {{cite journal|last=Panossian|first=Razmik|title=The Past as Nation: Three Dimensions of Armenian Identity|journal=Geopolitics|date=2002|volume=7|issue=2|page=127|doi=10.1080/714000931|s2cid=144667260}}

• Panossian, Razmik. "The evolution of multilocal national identity and the contemporary politics of nationalism: Armenia and its diaspora." PhD diss., London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002.

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