The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research is a non-profit, non-partisan, and non-sectarian organization founded in 1955 by a representative group of 60 prominent American Armenians and Harvard University professors in order to foster Armenian studies in America on an active, continuous, and scholarly basis and to perpetuate the Armenian Heritage. It is the only nationwide organization dedicated to the advancement of Armenian studies and culture through America’s foremost institutions of higher education and through a multifaceted program in support of research, scholarship, and publications.

Through NAASR’s own fund-raising efforts the first two endowed chairs in Armenian Studies in the United States were established at Harvard University in 1959 and at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1965. NAASR has also supported Armenian Studies programs at a number of other American universities, among them Columbia University, University of Massachusetts at Boston and at Amherst, Wayne State University, Tufts University, California State University at Fresno, University of Connecticut, Rutgers University, and Bentley College.

It is the only nationwide organization dedicated to the advancement of Armenian studies and culture through America’s foremost institutions of higher education and through a multifaceted program in support of research, scholarship, and publications.

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