An ethnography of Armenianness in contemporary Turkey compares Christian Armenians, Muslim or Alevi citizens reclaiming ancestry, and migrants from the Republic of Armenia.
Combining archives, cultural texts, interviews, and participant observation, the dissertation follows Armenian displacement from early-modern trans-imperial networks through racial classification, orphan imagery, Soviet emancipation, and post-Soviet development work.
Interviews with three generations of Colorado Armenians examine identity work in a community estimated at 2,916 people. A Denver Saturday school, Apostolic churches, a genocide khachkar, the Sardarapat highway sign, and SOAR charity link language, religion, memorialization, and assistance to Armenia.
Interviews with twelve Armenian Quebecers trace how school, church, and family support cultural continuity while also teaching French and Quebec social norms. Respondents describe institutional completeness as a basis for both Armenian identity and civic integration amid inherited genocide trauma.
Fieldwork in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Lebanon compares the integration of Armenians displaced from Syria between 2011 and 2016. The thesis weighs economic conditions, cultural difference, nostalgia, state policy, and NGO support, concluding that livelihood security most strongly shapes settlement outcomes.
The dissertation traces migration from the Ottoman homeland to the United States and then examines diaspora organizations’ efforts to shape American policy on genocide recognition, aid, and relations with Armenia. Its argument treats lobbying as the mechanism that moved contested historical claims into foreign-policy debate.
The dissertation places Sayat-Nova's multilingual songs inside Armenian and wider Near Eastern bardic traditions, then follows his twentieth-century scholarly and popular afterlife.
A dissertation reads Micheline Aharonian Marcom's three novels through postmemory, tracing how imagination mediates inherited Armenian Genocide trauma into present literary remembrance.
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.
A master's multimedia project organizes Los Angeles Armenian-American history, current community organizations, identity maintenance, and intergenerational prospects into four website sections.
A study of Armenian diaspora print culture examines literary criticism in France, Egypt, and the United States from 1919 to 1928 after the genocide. Western Armenian newspapers carried a debate between cultural preservation and literary innovation, making literature both an aesthetic practice and a social institution.
Survey data, electoral platforms, newspapers, laws, and elite interviews reveal competing Armenian identities around genocide memory, Turkey, Karabagh, diaspora citizenship, justice, and democracy.
The dissertation uses critical incidents and concept mapping to study how first-generation Armenian American community college students identify and organize college experiences that affected their sense of self.
A three-part study follows American Jewish engagement from Hamidian relief through Genocide witnesses and the 2007 congressional recognition dispute, weighing moral duty against strategic concerns.
Interviews and domain-of-use analysis trace declining Armenian fluency in Lebanon as multilingual generations shift toward Arabic, English, and French while renegotiating genocide memory, homeland, and heritage.
An Armenian-Canadian autoethnography uses literacy, bilingual identity, and the idea of linguistic and national home to describe writing from both sides of a border.
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