Ararat Osipian, Ph.D.

Biography

Ararat L. Osipian is a Founding Fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium at The New School, and a Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (SUS-VUIAS) Fellow at New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study. He previously served as Fellow of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, The Alexander Mirtchev visiting professor and scholar at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TRACCC), Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, was an associate researcher at the Department of Political Science and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a fellow of the Institute of International Education (IIE). Dr. Osipian holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Education and Human Development from Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt and an M.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University, where he came as a fellow of the US Department of State. Dr. Osipian is the author of  Sustainable Economic Growth in Russia: A Structuralist Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), The Economics of Growth in Russia: Overcoming the Poverty Trap (Routledge, 2023), Political and Economic Transition in Russia: Predatory Raiding, Privatization Reforms, and Property Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), The Political Economy of Corporate Raiding in Russia (Routledge, 2018), and The Impact of Human Capital on Economic Growth: A Case Study in Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1989-2009 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).His research interests include corruption in higher education and inequalities in access to higher education from an international perspective, corporate, property, and land raiding, the nexus of education and economic growth, modern welfare states, and the political economy of transition. His countries of experience include USA, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine.

Read more about his work here on his website, linked here.

Education

Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2013

M.A. Vanderbilt University, 2002

Ph.D. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 1999

M.Sc. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 1995