Gerard Libaridian

Gerard Jirair Libaridian (Armenian: Ժիրայր Լիպարիտեան, born 1945 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Armenian American historian and politician.

From 1991 to 1997, he served as adviser, and then senior adviser to the former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and was closely involved in the Karabakh negotiations.

In 2007, Prof. Libaridian was appointed the Director of Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan.

He holds the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan.

• 1999 Alumnus of the Year (Social Sciences), California State University
• 2000 Man of the Year, Knights of Vartan

• 1984 (as editor): What Is to Be Asked?, ed., Proceedings of Colloquium, Zoryan Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1985 (as editor): A Crime of Silence. The Armenian Genocide. Zed Books, ISBN 978-0862324247
• 1988 (as editor) The Karabagh File. Documents and Facts, 1918-1988 (ed.). Zoryan Institute, Cambridge and Toronto
• 1990 (as editor) The Sumgait Tragedy: Pogroms Against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijan, Caratzas and Zoryan Institute
• 1991: (as editor) Armenia at the Crossroads: Democracy and Nationhood in the Post-Soviet Era: Essays, interviews, and speeches by the leaders of the national democratic movement in Armenia. Blue Crane Books (Watertown, Massachusetts), ISBN 978-0-9628715-1-1
• 1999: The Challenge of Statehood. Armenian Political Thinking since Independence
• 2006 (as editor) Demokratizatsiya (Washington, DC)
• 2007: Modern Armenia: People, Nation, State. Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, New Jersey), ISBN 978-1-4128-0648-0