Raymond Kévorkian
Raymond Haroutioun Kévorkian is a French Armenian historian. He is a Foreign Member of Armenian National Academy of Sciences. Kevorkian has a PhD in history, and is a professor.Biography
Kevorkian finished the, where he teaches and serves as Research director at the French Institute of Geopolitics. Kevorkian is the director of Nubarian Library, Paris. He is the editor of d'Histoire arménienne contemporaine journal.
Kevorkian 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". It was originally published in French in 2006. The book is the first to make extensive use of the archives of the Nubarian Library.
In 2010, Kevorkian received the Presidential Award from Armenian President Serge Sarkisian in recognition of his enormous contributions as a scholar. He is a member of Société de Géographie and a board member of International Association for Armenian Studies.
In 2015, he received the French Legion of Honor.
