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- Vartan_Gregorian abstract "Vartan Gregorian (Armenian: Վարդան Գրիգորեան; Persian: وارتان گرگوریان, born April 8, 1934 Tabriz) is an Iranian-born Armenian-American academic, serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.Gregorian came to the United States in 1956 as a freshman, attending Stanford University, where he completed his B.A., with honors, in two years. After receiving his dual doctorates in history and humanities from Stanford in 1964, Gregorian served on the faculties of several American universities. He taught European and Middle Eastern history at San Francisco State College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin. In 1972 he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty and was appointed Tarzian Professor of History and professor of South Asian history. He was founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and four years later became its twenty-third provost until 1981. From 1981 to 1989, Gregorian served as president of The New York Public Library, an eight-year tenure which would prove to be one of his lasting legacies.In 1988, he was chosen to become president of Brown University, where he served for the next nine years. In 1997, he was appointed president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the philanthropic foundation created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. He currently serves as a trustee of the Aga Khan Museum, the Library of Alexandria, The Hunter Foundation, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, The American Academy in Berlin, and the Patti and Everett B. Biurch Foundation.In 1986, Gregorian was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and in 1989 the American Academy of the Institute of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal for Service to the Arts. In 1998, President Clinton awarded him the National Humanities Medal. In 2004, President George W. Bush awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civil award. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed him to serve on the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. In addition, Gregorian has received the Council on Foundations Distinguished Service Award, 2013; the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Leadership Award, 2010; the Africa-America Institute Award for Leadership in Higher Education Philanthropy, 2009; and has been honored by various other cultural and professional associations, including the Armenian Cultural Foundation, the Urban League, the League of Women Voters, the Players Club, PEN-American Center, Literacy Volunteers of New York, the American Institute of Architects, the Charles A. Dana Foundation, and the Elysium Between Two Continents. He has been honored by the city and state of New York, the states of Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, and the cities of Fresno, Austin, Providence and San Francisco and was named a Living Landmark of the City of New York, where he currently resides.Gregorian is on the advisory board of the Genesis Prize Foundation; the Qatar Foundation; the International Advisory Board of the European University of St. Petersburg; the World Bank Advisory Council of Global Foundation Leaders; the Advisory Board of the Dilijan International School of Armenia, the University of Tokyo President’s Council; the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, International Academic Advisory Committee; the Neustadt and Schelling Awards Selection Committee (Chairman), Harvard Kennedy School of Government; the Culture and Sports Glasgow Advisory Committee;; Advisory Council, Global Philanthropy Forum; the Phi Beta Kappa Society Board, The Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at the City College of New York; International Advisory Council, Kofi Annan Fellowship in Global Governance; Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, Kyoto, Japan; and the University of Southern California, Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, Advisory Board. In addition, he served as Chair and Juror of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, 2003 – 2004. Previously, he was a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica and served on a number of other editorial boards. A Phi Beta Kappa and a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellow, he is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Armenian Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New York Institute for the Humanities. He is a recipient of fellowships from, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council. Gregorian is also a member of the Association of Colleges and Research Libraries and the International Federation of Library Associations, among other groups, and is an honorary member of the American Library Association, the organization’s highest distinction.. Gregorian has received honorary degrees from scores of American and foreign institutions. He documented much of his life and career in academia, at The New York Public Library, and in philanthropy, in his 2003 autobiography, The Road to Home: My Life and Times.".
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