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  1. 2015

    Armenian religious architecture in the late 19th early 20th century Kayseri: spatial and cultural cleansing

    Francesca Penoni

    A catalogue of Kayseri’s Armenian churches and monasteries reconstructs religious architecture from the mid-nineteenth century through 1915 and records destruction, neglect, and transformation after the Ottoman period. Demographic evidence places the buildings within the city’s changing Armenian presence.

    2015DissertationOpen Access
  2. 2015

    Between Host-Countries and Homeland: Institutions, Politics and Identities in the Post-Genocide Armenian Diaspora (1920s to 1980s).

    Vahe Sahakyan

    Drawing on community histories, Armenian-language periodicals, and interviews in Lebanon, France, and the United States, the dissertation traces how post-genocide dispersion became a transnational diaspora divided between competing homeland-centered and diaspora-centered institutions.

    2015DissertationOpen Access
  3. 2014

    "How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken Armenian?": A Study of Eastern Armenian Heritage Language Speakers in Los Angeles

    Karapetian, Shushan

    Introduces Armenian, specifically Eastern Armenian in Los Angeles, into the landscape of heritage languages in the United States, filling a gap in both heritage-language research and Armenian studies. It assesses the linguistic landscape of Armenians in Los Angeles, including the presence and use of the language and the visible signs of its loss, then examines incomplete acquisition among heritage speakers across phonology, morphology, register, and English borrowings, proposing domains of linguistic compartmentalization to describe patterns of use. A central finding concerns the persistent anxiety attached to speaking the heritage language and the damaging cycle that anxiety produces. The study closes on the inconsistent attitudes and beliefs surrounding Armenian, analyzed through competing majority and minority language ideologies. Data come from a corpus of in-depth interviews with college-age Eastern Armenian heritage learners.

    2014ThesisOpen Access

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