Women and Human Rights in Armenia

Prof. Gohar Shahnazaryan is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, on a program sponsored by the Open Society Institute. She is using her time at Berkeley to develop a course that would examine the impact of social and cultural transformations on identity, values, and attitudes. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Yerevan State University in Armenia and was a visiting scholar at ASU as part of an educational partnership to develop public administration curriculum, which was sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of State. Her areas of research and publication include gender stratification and gender attitudes, social work with vulnerable groups of women, gender aspects of conflict resolution, and gender aspects of access to education. Prof. Shahnazaryan serves as the executive director of the Women’s Resource Center and has served as a national consultant to UNIFEM.