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Richard Dekmejian

Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Email dekmejia@usc.edu

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Professor Dekmejian splits his research efforts between National Security issues, International Mediation, Middle East/Islamic Studies, Political Elites, Comparative Genocides, and Terrorism.

  • Contracts and Grants Awarded

    • Scalable, Stochastic and Spatiotemporal Game Theory for Real-World Human Adversarial Behavior, (Office of Naval Research), Milind Tambe, R.H. Dekmejian, Senior Advisor, $6,250,000, 08/15/2011 – 08/14/2016

  • Conference Presentations

    • Impact of Middle East Crisis on Global Business Lecture/Seminar, IBEAR Program, Marshall School, Invited, USC, JKP 204, 06/02/2011 –
    • Rafael Lemkin’s Linkage Role: The Armenian Genocide to the Holocaust , International Workshop Resisting the Path of Genocide: Shoah Foundation InstituteTalk/Oral Presentation, 20/20 Genocide Resistance Cluster, Invited, USC, Doheny Library, 05/06/2011 –
    • Global Briefing — Egypt Roundtable/Panel, USC Middle East Studies Program, Invited, USC, Mudd Hall, 02/17/2011 –
    • Defining & Conceptualizing Resistance to Genocide: The Armenian Case , Genocide Resistance Research ClusterTalk/Oral Presentation, Shoah Foundation Institute, Invited, USC, Leavy Library, 11/03/2010 –
    • Stability & Development in the Middle East , OECD Series, “Looking to the Middle East”Roundtable/Panel, Center for International Studies, Invited, USC, SOS B-40, 09/15/2010 –
    • Jordan in a Changing Global Environment , 10th Anniversary of King Abdullah IIKeynote Lecture, University of Jordan, Invited, Amman, Jordan, 06/15/2009 –
    • Future of Armenian Studies Talk/Oral Presentation, UCLA, Invited, UCLA, 03/28/2009 –
    • Genocide: From Recognition to Restitution , Conference on GenocideRoundtable/Panel, Loyola Law School, Invited, Loyola Law School – Los Angeles, 02/27/2009 –

    Other Presentations

    • Islamist Terrorism: Future Trends, Men’s Fellowship Dinner, Los Angeles, 2008-CONT
    • Geopolitics of the Caucasus, Georgia on My Mind, USC, 2008-CONT

  • Administrative Appointments

    • Director, USC Institute of Armenian Studies, 08/16/2005 – 08/31/2012
    • Director, 08/16/2011 – 08/15/2012
    • Director, 08/16/2010 – 08/15/2011
    • Director, Institute of Armenian Studies, 08/16/2005 – 08/15/2007

    Committees

    • Member, Departmental Personnel Committee, 2011-2012