Anna Ohanyan

Anna Ohanyan is Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and a Non-resident Senior Scholar in the Russia/Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ohanyan has authored, edited and co-edited five books and numerous academic articles. Her most recent book is “The Neighborhood Effect: The Imperial Roots of Regional Fracture in Eurasia”, published with Stanford University Press in 2022. She is the recipient of the 2022 Michael Horne Award for Distinguished Faculty Scholarship at Stonehill College. Her “Regional Fracture and Its Intractability in World Politics: The Case of the Late Ottoman Empire,” published with Nationalities Papers in 2022, received the 2023 Huttenbach Prize by the 27th Convention of the Association for the Studies in Nationalities at Columbia University in New York. She is a public scholar and has contributed to BBC, PBS, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg-Asia, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNBC-Asia, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and The Washington Quarterly, among many other news outlets and policy journals.

Ohanyan has also consulted for numerous organizations such as the U.S. State Department,United Nations Foundation, the World Bank, the National Intelligence Council Project at Maryland University, the Carter Center, and USAID. Her work has taken her across the globe, from Northern Ireland to the Balkans, Russia, and the South Caucasus. 

Books:
The Neighborhood Effect: The Imperial Roots of Regional Fracture in Eurasia (Stanford University Press, 2022)
Armenia’s Velvet Revolution (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond (Georgetown University Press, 2018)
Networked Regionalism as Conflict Management (Stanford University Press, 2015)
NGOs, IGOs, and Network Mechanisms of Post-Conflict Global Governance in Microfinance (Palgrave, 2008)