| Vartan Gregorian  Born: 8-Apr-1934
Birthplace: Tabriz, Iran
Died: 15-Apr-2021
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Eastern Orthodox
Race or Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Educator, Administrator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: NYPL President, 1981-89 Father: Samuel B. Gregorian (accountant)
Mother: Shushanik G. Mirzaian (d. pneumonia)
Sister: Ojik (younger)
Wife: Clare Russell (m. 1960, three sons)
Son: Dareh Gregorian
Son: Raffi Gregorian
Son: Vahé Gregorian
University: BA, Stanford University (1958)
University: PhD History & Humanities, Stanford University (1964)
Professor: History, San Francisco State College (1962-68)
Professor: History, University of Texas at Austin (1968-72)
Professor: History, University of Pennsylvania (1972-81)
Dean: Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania (1974-78)
Provost: University of Pennsylvania (1978-81)
President: Brown University (1989-97)
Trustee: Trustee, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan (past)
President's Commission on White House Fellowships
Carnegie Corporation President (1997-2021)
New York Public Library President (1981-89)
Member of the Board of McGraw-Hill
American Academy in Berlin Trustee
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow
American Philosophical Society Fellow
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Board of Directors
Council on Foreign Relations
J. Paul Getty Trust Board of Directors (past)
Human Rights Watch Board of Directors
Institute for Advanced Study Board of Directors
Museum of Modern Art Trustee
Social Science Research Council Fellow
World Trade Center Memorial Foundation Board of Directors
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Hillary Rodham Clinton for US Senate Committee
Ford Fellowship Foreign Area Training Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowship
Presidential Medal of Freedom 2004
National Humanities Medal 1998
Armenian Ancestry
Author of books:
Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1880-1946 (1969, history)
Censorship: 500 Years of Conflict (1984, history)
Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith (2004, history)
The Road to Home: My Life and Times (2003, memoir)
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