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About Arlene Voski Avakian
- Arlene Voski Avakian (born 1939) is an Armenian-American academic specializing in women's studies and food history. Avakian came to the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a graduate student, helping to found the Women's Studies Program.
- She later joined the faculty at what grew into the university's Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
- She retired from UMass Amherst in 2011. Avakian's papers are held in the university's archives collection.
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