Aram Yengoyan

Aram Yengoyan is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Caught in the genocidal massacres in Eastern Anatolia, his parents were forced out and joined the Armenian diaspora, eventually settling in Fresno, California, where his father edited an Armenian language newspaper, and where Aram Yengoyan was born in 1936. As an undergraduate he worked with Joseph Birdsell at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964, where he worked with Fred Eggan and other anthropologists, and subsequently held a position in the anthropology department at the University of Michigan for twenty-seven years. He has taught at the University of California, Davis, since 1990. He has conducted fieldwork in various...