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Graduate Students

Armen Abkarian

Department of History PhD Student
abkarian@umich.edu

Interests: The Mongol Empire, Armenian Literature, Armenian Historiography

Education: MA in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago

Emma Avagyan

Department of Middle East Studies PhD student
eavagyan@umich.edu

Interests: Armenian language and linguistics, Armenian literature, Modern Hebrew language and linguistics, comparative sociolinguistics,  language pedagogy

Languages: English, Hebrew, Armenian, Arabic, Russian

Education: MA in Jewish civilizations, HfJS Heidelberg

Nazelie Doghramadjian

PhD Student, School of Information
nazelie@umich.edu

Interests: Personal archives, archival silences, recordkeeping and preservation practices of Armenian women 

Languages: Western Armenian

Education: B.A. Humanities, Villanova University

Lilit Gizhlaryan

International and Regional Studies, Graduate student 
lgizhlar@umich.edu

Center for Russian, East European, Eurasian Studies

Interests: Memory politics, borders and identity creation in the context of the conflicts in the South Caucasus, colonial and postcolonial legacies

Languages: Armenian, English, Spanish, Russian, Turkish 

Education: MA in Spanish Language and Literature, Yerevan State University 

Sosi Lepejian

Department of Sociology PhD Student
lepejian@umich.edu

Interests: Ethnography, comparative-historical sociology, environmental sociology, colonialism, social movements, migration, race and ethnicity, Middle East Studies

Languages: English, Spanish, Western Armenian, Arabic

Education: BA in Human Rights, Bard College

Arakel Minassian

Department of Comparative Literature PhD Student
minassag@umich.edu

Interests: Modern and contemporary Eastern and Western Armenian literature, literary responses to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, postcolonial studies, creative writing in Western Armenian.

Education: MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan.

Languages: Modern Armenian (western and eastern), Russian, French.

Emma Santelmann

Department of Linguistics PhD Student
esantelm@umich.edu

Interests: Sociolinguistics, language and dialect contact, language ideologies, Armenian dialects

Languages: Armenian, Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Turkish

Education: MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures (UC Berkeley), BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures (Harvard College)