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Curriculum Vitae

Zaruhi M. Sahakyan

Address

Mailing Address O ce Address

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 703 S. Wright Street, 3rd floor, room 43Department of Economics Champaign, Illinois 61820

214 David Kinley Hall Phone: 217-***-****

1407 West Gregory Drive Email: aborok@r.postjobfree.com

Urbana, Illinois 61801 Homepage: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/sahakyan

Education

2008 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana{Champaign

Dissertation Title: Political Economy of Immigration and Lobbying

2005 M.S. in Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana{Champaign

2001 M.A. in International and Development Economics, Yale University

1999 Diploma, Economics, Yerevan State University (with distinction, \red diploma")

Experience

Jan 2012{PresentLecturer of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Illinois,

U-Ch.

Jan 2009{Dec 2011Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Illinois,

U-

Ch.

2003{2008Teaching Assistant for Microeconomic Principles, Economic Statistics I and II,

University of Illinois, Urbana{Champaign,

2004{2005 Webmaster, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana{Champaign

2001{2003 Research assistant for Prof. Gustav Ranis, Center for International and Area

Studies,

Yale University, New Haven

2001 Research assistant for Prof. Robert J. Shiller, Cowles Foundation for Research in

Economics, Yale University, New Haven

2001 Research assistant for Dr. Claire Gaudiani, Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School

1998{1999Intern, Europe III/Overseas Division, Allianz AG, Headquarter, Munich, Germany

1998Intern, Department of development of small and medium scale enterprises,

Ministry of Industry and Trade, Yerevan, Armenia

Publications

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2011 Fall List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois

2008 Fall List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois

2007 Spring List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of

Illinois

2007 Fall List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois

Academic Awards

2000{2001 Edmund Muskie Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship

1999 Diploma with Honors Red Diploma, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

1999 Scholarship, School for International Training, World Learning, Vermont

1998 Scholarship, Erasmus University and Intl Institute for Mediation and Conflict

Resolution

1997 George Soros Foundation, East-East Grant

1994 Gold medal, school # 64, Yerevan, Armenia

Presentations

2011 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, 69th Annual National Conference

Chicago

2009 Panelist, Current Affairs Forum on \Reform or Retrenchment: Postcommuist

Eurasia and the World Economic Crisis", University of Illinois

2005{2007 Guest lectures on Soviet Economy, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center

at Illinois

2006 Conference on Dual Citizenship, AIPRG (The Impact of Immigration and Repatriation

on Labor Market), Armenia

Summer Schools

2002 Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University. Liberty and Current Issues

1999 School for International Training, World Learning, Vermont. Intercultural Conflict

Transformation and Peacebuilding

1998 Erasmus University (Netherlands), International Institute for Mediation and Conflict

Resolution (Washington, D.C.). IV International Student Symposium on Negotiation

and Conflict Resolution

Skills

Language skills: Native in Armenian. Fluent in English, Russian. Working knowledge of

German

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Membership

2004{2006 Founder and President, Armenian Association, ArmA, University of Illinois at U-

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2001 Founder and Treasurer, Young Associates from Newly Independent States, YANIS, Yale

1996{1998 Vice President, AIESEC Armenia

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