Anna Ohanyan

Anna Ohanyan is the Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College and a Nonresident Senior Scholar in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, she has authored five books and numerous articles on global conflict dynamics.

Education:

• Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science, Syracuse University
• M.S. in Conflict Resolution, Nova Southeastern University
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Her research examines Russian and Eurasian geopolitics, armed conflicts, regional fracture, and the agency of small states in post-Soviet spaces. Current work analyzes how the Ukraine war reshapes Eurasian power dynamics, blending network theory, comparative regionalism, and historical methods.

Publications span top journals like Nationalities Papers and International Studies Review, with recurring themes of conflict intractability, imperial legacies, and regional order-building. Her 2022 article on Ottoman fracture patterns exemplifies this focus.

Awards:

• 2022 Michael Horne Award for Distinguished Scholarship
• 2023 Huttenbach Prize for best article in nationalism studies
• Two Fulbright grants to the South Caucasus

Research funding includes grants from Harvard's Kennedy School, Woodrow Wilson Center, U.S. State Department, and German Marshall Fund. She advises organizations like the UN Foundation and World Bank and contributes to media including BBC, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera.