The UCLA Research Program in Armenian Archaeology and Ethnography was created through the long-term partnership of Zaruhy Sara Chitjian and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology in 2013. As one of its core tenets, the Research Program seeks to address the development of interdisciplinary studies in the Social Sciences and the Humanities based on a broad inclusion of Armenian material, together with issues of preservation of Armenian cultural heritage. This approach is the main venue to integrate Armenian Studies in world scholarship and to identify new methods and strategies that would lead to an expansion and recognition of these studies.