Aram Yardumian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Athyn College in Pennsylvania, USA.  He is the author of The Peopling of the Caucasus (Cambridge University Press, 2025) as well as several books on musicology, Listen (Errant Bodies, 2022), Persepolis (Bloomsbury, 2023), and Mesostructures (4th Dimension, forthcoming 2025).