on the Holocaust and Genocide; International Alert; the Foundation for Research on Armenian Architecture; and the Armenian National Institute (ANI). He received the UCLA Alumni Association's 2010-2011 "Most Inspiring Teacher" award. Since 2000, Hovannisian has overseen and edited a number of individual studies on the former Armenian-populated towns and cities of the Ottoman Empire. In 2014, he became adjust professor at USC "with the intention of advising on the Shoah Foundation’s integration of the Armenian Film Foundation’s collection of genocide survivor interviews." He then in 2018 donated his own interviews to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. The 1000 interviews are titled the Richard G. Hovannisian Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection, and is "the largest existing collection about the Armenian Genocide" according to the foundation. The interviews were first recorded in 1972, when he had students in California tape Armenian genocide survivors throughout the Southern part of the state, as well as other states and countries. In the 1990s and 2000s, as the survivors died off, the interviews focused instead on the children of survivors, with the last class taking place in 2011. In February 2020, Hovannisian received the Armenian Genocide Education Legacy award at the 4th Annual Armenian Genocide Education Awards Luncheon put on by The Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region’s Education Committee. Political views In a 2006 interview Hovannisian criticized the government of then President Robert Kocharyan for its authoritarian nature and added that Armenia "must not become a failed state." Hovannisian partook in the protests following the 2013 presidential election in Armenia in which his son, Raffi, came in second according to official results. Selected works The Armenian Holocaust, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Armenian Heritage Press (1980) The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, 2 vols. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997 (editor) Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998 (editor) UCLA conference series proceedings The UCLA conference series titled "Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces" has been organized by Hovannisian, as the Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History. The conference proceedings (edited by Hovannisian) that have so far been published (in Costa Mesa, CA, by Mazda Publishers) are: Armenian Van/Vaspurakan (2000) Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush (2001) Armenian Tsopk/Kharpert (2002) Armenian Karin/Erzerum (2003) Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia (2004) Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa (2006) Armenian Cilicia (2008) (together with Simon Payaslian) Armenian Pontus: