Anna Ohanyan is a nonresident senior scholar in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar to the South Caucasus and author or coauthor of five books and numerous academic articles.

Her books on Russian and Eurasian studies include The Neighborhood Effect: The Impact Roots of Regional Fracture in Eurasia (Stanford University Press, 2022) and Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond, edited (Georgetown University Press, 2018). She also has published widely on armed conflicts, global conflict management, regional fracture, and order-building, which includes her Networked Regionalism as Conflict Management (Stanford University Press, 2015).

Professor Ohanyan is the recipient of the 2022 Michael Horne Award for Distinguished Faculty Scholarship at Stonehill College. Her “Regional Fracture and Its Intractability in World Politics: The Case of the Late Ottoman Empire,” published with Nationalities Papers in 2022, received the 2023 Huttenbach Prize by the 27^th Convention of the Association for the Studies in Nationalities at Columbia University in New York. Her articles appeared in Nationalities Papers, International Studies Review, Peace and Change, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Global Governance, and Global Society, among other journals. Her research has been supported by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2002-2004), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the German Marshall Fund, the U.S. State Department, and Eurasia Foundation.

Professor Ohanyan is a public scholar and has contributed to PBS, BBC, Bloomberg-Asia, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNBC-Asia, MSNBC, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, the Washington Quarterly, Channel News Asia-Singapore, and ABC Radio-Australia, among many other news outlets and policy journals. She has also consulted for numerous organizations such as the U.S. State Department, Freedom House, United Nations Foundation, the World Bank, the National Intelligence Council Project at Maryland University, the Carter Center, and USAID. Her work has taken her across the globe, from Northern Ireland to the Balkans, Russia, and the South Caucasus.

Her current research project is centered on the level of agency of small states and middle powers in the Eurasian continent. It explores the systemic effect of such states in the process of political reconfiguration of the continent, accelerated after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This project draws from network theory, comparative regionalism, and historical methods of comparative analysis in assessing the levers and limits of small states and middle powers in the processes of ordermaking in the Eurasian continent.