Dr. Armine Poghosyan

Dr. Armine Poghosyan
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural Business and Education
College of Agriculture

Contact Information
Telephone:  (615) 963-7561
Email: apoghosy@tnstate.edu 

Research Areas

Price Analysis, Economic Development, Environmental Economics, Consumer Economics, Food Demand, Pedagogy

Education

Ph.D. in Economics Aug. 2024
Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA

M.A. in Data Analysis and Applied Statistics May 2024
Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA

M.S. in Agricultural Economics Aug. 2017 - Dec. 2018
Texas A&M-Commerce Commerce, TX

B.S. in Mathematical Methods and Modeling in Economics Sept. 2012 - June 2016
Armenian State University of Economics

Certificate

Principles of Effective Teaching Certificate Program Nov. 2023
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA

Future Professoriate May, 2022
Graduate School, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA

Publications

A. Poghosyan, O. Isengildina-Massa \Evaluating Student Learning Outcomes from Participation in

Student-Managed Investment Funds" Work in progress

A. Poghosyan, E. Benami., O. Ng, S. Brunelin \Measures and mediators of household vulnerability

to poverty in the Sahel" Work in progress

A. Poghosyan, O. Isengildina-Massa, S. Stewart. \Futures Based Forecasts of Cotton Prices: Beyond

Historical Averages" Submitted to the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics

P. Tajanpure, A. Poghosyan, R. Rudd, M. Gupta, C. Back, E. Benami, S. Chen \Sensing Drought in

the Sahel for Household Resilience." Data Science for the Public Good Program, Virginia Tech, 2022

R. Bakhtavoryan, A. Poghosyan, J. A. Lopez, and A. Ogunc. \An Empirical Analysis of Household

Demand for Organic and Conventional Flour in the United States: Evidence from the 2014 Nielsen

Homescan Data." Journal of Agribusiness, 37, 2019:97-116.

Teaching

Tennessee State University

  AGSC 3120: Introduction to Applied Statistics

  AGSC 3040: Agricultural Policy

  AGSC 4100: Organization and Contemporary Issues Facing Agriculture Firms

  AGSC 3010: Farm Management

  AGSC 3020: Food Economics

  AGSC 4010: Rural Finance

  AGSC 4040: World Agriculture

Virginia Tech

  AAEC 3514: Agricultural Futures and Options

  AAEC 4504: Agricultural Price Analysis

  AAEC 3004: Agricultural Production and Consumption Economics

  AAEC 3014: Analytical Methods

  AAEC 4504: Agricultural Price Analysis (instructor)

  AAEC 2104: Personal Financial Planning (instructor)

Texas A&M University-Commerce

  AEC 316: Agricultural Marketing

  AEC 435: Agricultural Policy

  AEC 219: Agricultural Economic

  AEC 445: Natural Resource Economics

  AEC 455: Commodity Futures and Options

  PSCI 497: U.S.-Ukraine Relations. Study Abroad Program

Honors and Awards

Graduate Teaching Award, North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture 2024

Graduate Teaching Scholar, Virginia Tech 2021 - 2024

VA 811 Fellowship, Virginia Tech 2023

Armenian Student Association of America Scholarship 2020 - 2024

Armenian General Benevolent Union Scholarship 2020 - 2023

Armenian International Women's Association Scholarship 2021, 2024

Ralph G. Kline Fellowship 2021

Commodity Investing by Students (COINS) Fellowship, Virginia Tech 2019 - 2020

Global Learner Status, Texas A&M University - Commerce 2018

Tommy M. Lovell Scholarship , Texas A&M University - Commerce 2018

Second place winner at the Federation of North Texas Area Universities Conference 2018

Travel Grant, Texas A&M University-Commerce 2018

Hirair & Anna Hovnanian Foundation Scholarship 2016

Mendeleev Scholarship 2012 - 2017


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