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.
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.
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.
The dissertation argues that Armenian communal reform, especially the 1860/63 National Constitution and Patriarchate centralization, was integral to Ottoman Tanzimat state-building rather than derivative nationalism.
Between 1903 and 1914, Tsarist policy toward Russian Armenians shifted through church-property confiscation, Dashnaktsutiun repression, bourgeois negotiation, Caucasian unrest, and changing Ottoman strategy.
A comparative dissertation traces continuity and change in Turkey's Armenian Genocide narrative and Japan's Nanjing narrative through archives, fieldwork, and more than seventy-five interviews.
Three security-sector cases, including Armenian defence reform, test how human development and state security are translated into policy across Afghanistan and Guinea-Bissau.
The dissertation traces Turkish genocide denial through press debates around Sabiha Gökçen and Hrant Dink, economic class formation, Atatürk's authority, and national education.
Survey data, electoral platforms, newspapers, laws, and elite interviews reveal competing Armenian identities around genocide memory, Turkey, Karabagh, diaspora citizenship, justice, and democracy.
Long-term testimony, literature, memory sites, and community institutions anchor an anthropology of Armenian post-genocide exile, fragmentation, transmission, and diasporic belonging.
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.
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