DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH

16 December, 1991, Yerevan, Armenia.

EDUCATION

2008-2012 – Yerevan State University (Bachelor of Oriental Studies)

June 2010 - September 2010 – Arabic Language Course (Arabic Teaching Institute for Non-Arabic Speakers), Damascus, Syria

2012-2014 – Yerevan State University, Master of Oriental Studies (with Distinction)                                                                                                          

August 2014 - March 2015 – Paideia, European Institute for Jewish Studies, Sweden

January 2015 – International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

April 2015 - June 2018 – Master of Jewish Civilizations, HFJS, Heidelberg University, Germany

October 2019 - September 2023 – University of Cambridge, Doctorate (PhD) in Middle Eastern Studies, UK

WORK EXPERIENCE

February 2014 - August 2014 – "Matenadaran" Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Junior Researcher

February 2019 - October 2019 – Brusov State University, Specialist in Foreign Relations and International Cooperation (Established the first Hebrew Language and Culture Center in Armenia)

March 2020 – Rutgers University, New Jersey, Guest Scholar, (Lectured on "Judeo-Arabic: Introduction and Overview of Resources" and "Lost Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts of the Matenadaran Collection")

October 2021 - October 2024 – "Matenadaran" Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Project Specialist *(Researched the topic "Arabic script medical manuscripts of Matenadaran Collection". The grant was provided by the Government of the Republic of Armenia)

October 2022 - June 2023 – University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Supervisor,

*(Taught undergraduate MES 5 (Modern Hebrew) course, provided individual and group counseling to students on academic programs appropriate to their interests)

July 2023 – University of Cambridge, Hebrew Summer School, Lecturer *(Taught Modern Hebrew to a group of international students)

September 2025 - May 2026 – Brandeis University, Institute for Advanced Israel Studies, Research Fellow

January 2024 - present – Cambridge, Woolf Institute, Research Affiliate

September 2024 - present – St. Edmund's College, Research Associate

September 2024 - present – Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge

September 2025 - present – Yesayi and Maria Mazmanian Foundation (Cooperation and Partnerships), Member of the Board of Trustees,

From September 2026 – Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge

On August 20, 2026, by the decision of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Ani Avetisyan was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia.

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Avetisyan, A. "Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, and Garshuni Versions of Ibn al-Akfānī's Treatise on Bloodletting: Linguistic Variation in Late Judaeo-Arabic", Études sur le judaïsme medieval, Brill (published)

Articles published in peer-reviewed journals

Review of Joshua Blau's "Notes on R. Saadya Gaon's Translation of the Torah, Part I - Genesis", European Journal of Jewish Studies: Brill, 2022

Avetisyan, A. "Ripe apples with bread? TS Ar.43.225", Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, March, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.99637)

Avetisyan, A., Makaryan V. "Arabic Medical Handbooks of Matenadaran Collection", Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Vol. 8, Number 2, Fall 2023

Avetisyan, A. "Judaeo-Arabic as a Language of Healing: Medical Knowledge and Community Literacy in the Medieval Islamic World", Al-Masāq; Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (in press)

Avetisyan, A., Moreno A. "Egypt as a Global Migration Hub: A Historical Perspective", Journal of Migration History, Brill (in press)

Collected volumes

Avetisyan, A. "MS No.1751 Judaeo-Arabic medical manuscript of the Matenadaran Collection", in: E.M. Wagner, Ottoman Arabic Handbook and Reader, University of Cambridge, 2021: Open Book Publishers

Avetisyan, A. "Introduction to MS 1751 Judaeo-Arabic medical manuscript ", Banber Matenadaran, Yerevan, 2021

Other publications

Venara R. Makaryan, Ani J. Avetisyan, Kristine P. Kostikyan, Ani A. Avetisyan "Catalogue of the Arabic-script Medical Manuscripts of Matenadaran Collection (Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Judaeo-Arabic)", Literary History of Medicine, Brill (Under contract)

Avetisyan, A., Grigoryan A. "Armenian-Hebrew Thematic Dictionary", Antares Publishing House, Yerevan, 2022

LANGUAGES

Armenian, English, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, German, Biblical Hebrew 

AWARDS

Honorary PhD Scholar at the Woolf Institute (2019-2023)