Guest
Vahe Sahakyan, PhD
17.06.2024 - 17.07.2024
Contemporary History
Guest Researcher
Research topic at the GWZO:
"Layers of Armenian Diasporic Belonging"
Institution
University of Michigan, Armenian Research Center, Dearborn, USA
Research region
Armenian Diaspora (United States, France, Middle East)
Research focuses
- Diaspora studies
- Armenian Studies
Publications (selection)
- Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology. Yerevan: Yerevan State University Press, 2022. Compiler and Editor (in Armenian).
- “Transnational Politics and Governmental Strategies in the Formative Years of the Post-Genocide Armenian Diaspora (1920s-1930s),” in Sossie Kasbarian, Talar Chahinian, Tsolin Nalbantian (eds.), The Armenian Diaspora and ‘Stateless Power’: Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century. London: I. B. Tauris, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 107-134.
- “Diaspora, Ethnicity, and the Concept of the "Armenian Transnation": Brief Notes on Diaspora Theory and Practice," in Armenia 2018: Realities and Perspectives, Vol. 2, eds. Ashot Voskanyan, Thomas Schrapel (Yerevan: Armenian Research Center in Humanities, 2020), 337-344. (English and Armenian bilingual publication)
- “Spaces of Difference, Spaces of Belonging: Negotiating Armenianness in Lebanon and France,” in An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion, eds. Kathryn Babayan, Michael Pifer ([S.I.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 247-267.