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
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
Mano Sakayan
Department of History PhD Student
msakayan@umich.edu
Interests: Intellectual history, cultural history, history of science and medicine, French colonial studies, Armenian history, late Ottoman history, the modern Arab world.
Languages: Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, French, Persian, and Turkish
Education: MA in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University