In 1947, she has been repatriated with her parents to the Motherland, Armenia.

In 1956, she has graduated with honours from the Department of the Armenian Language and Literature of the Kh. Abovian State Pedagogical Institute.

Beginning from the nineteen fifties, she has, on her own initiative, started to write down and thereby saved from a total loss the various folklore creations communicated by the repatriates forcibly deported from Western Armenia, Cilicia and the Armenian-inhabited provinces of Anatolia, as well as the narrated memoirs of the eye-witness survivors of the Genocide.

Starting from 1958, she has worked at the M. Abeghian Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. During her post-graduate studies, she has been a M. Abeghian grant-aided student.

From 1961, she has worked at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and, from 1996, also at the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.

She has maintained her Candidate thesis in 1965 and her thesis for a Doctor's Degree in 1995.

She has participated in republican and international conferences, discoursing upon folklore, ethnography and the Armenian Action.

She is also the author of a number of scientific papers published in the Motherland and in the Diaspora.
 

Publications:

"Sarkis Haykouni. (Life and Work)."Armenian Ethnography and Folklore. Vol. 4, Publishing House AS ASSR, Yerevan, 1973 (in Armenian, with Russian Summary).

"Artsakh-Utik."Armenian Folk Tales. Vol. 6, Publishing House AS ASSR, Yerevan, 1973 (in Armenian).

"Taron-Turuberan."Armenian Folk Tales. Vol. 12, Publishing House AS ASSR, Yerevan, 1984 (in Armenian).

"Van-Vaspurakan."Armenian Folk Tales. Vol. 15, "Gitutiun" Publishing House NAS RA, Yerevan, 1998 (in Armenian).

"Moussa Dagh."Armenian Ethnography and Folklore. Vol. 16, Publishing House AS ASSR, Yerevan, 1984 (in Armenian, with English & Russian Summaries)

"Cilicia. The Oral Tradition of the Western Armenians." "Gitutiun" Publishing House NAS RA, Yerevan, 1994 (in Armenian, with English, French & Russian Summaries).

"Genocide. The Oral Evidences of the Western Armenians." "Gitutiun" Publishing House NAS RA, Yerevan, 1995 (in Armenian, with English, French & Russian Summaries).

"The Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Western Armenians." "Gitutiun" Publishing House NAS RA, Yerevan, 1997 (in Armenian, with English, French & Russian Summaries).

"The Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Western Armenians." "Gitutiun" Publishing House NAS RA, Yerevan, 1997 (in Russian, with English, French & Armenian Summaries).

"The Armenian Genocide in the Memoirs and Turkish-Language Songs of the Eye-Witness Survivors." "Gitutiun" Publishing House NAS RA, Yerevan, 1999 (in English).

"The Folklore of the Armenians of Constantinople." "Gitutiun" Publishing House NAS RA, Yerevan, 2000 (in Western Armenian, with English Summary).

"The Armenian Genocide. Testimonies of the Eye-Witness Survivors." "Gitutiun" Publishing House NAS RA, Yerevan, 2000 (in Armenian, with English, French & Russian Summaries).