Sosy Mishoyan

Sosy is a graduate of Karen Jeppe Armenian College in Aleppo and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English, Arts, and Humanities from Aleppo State University. She further pursued her studies and obtained a Certificate in Armenian Studies from the Hamazkayin Institute.

Sosy began her career as a Western Armenian language teacher at the Aleppo Azkayin Haigazian School and later at Karen Jeppe Armenian College. She then moved to Armenia, where she earned a Master’s Degree in Pedagogy with a specialization in Armenian Language and Literature from the Armenian State Pedagogical University under Khachadour Abovian.

After completing her studies, Sosy worked as a linguist in the Western Armenian Department of the Hrachia Ajaryan Language Institute, part of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. She also served as a Western Armenian teacher at the Saturday Siamanto School under the National Prelacy of North America.

In addition to her teaching and linguistic roles, Sosy is the founder and tutor of Western Armenian online courses. She has actively participated in several professional development workshops and webinars, including:

• “Engaging Easy Apps to Enhance Language Learning” – CARLA Workshops (2023)
• “Genre Pedagogies in the World Language Classroom I” – CERCLL Webinar (2023)
• Language Teacher Summer Institute (2024) – 50 hours of instruction with Dr. Sharon Difino, UF Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
• “TeachTok: Social Media Hacks to Level Up Your Language Teaching Game” – 3-day synchronous CARLA Summer Institute (July 2025)
• University of Arizona – Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Consortium of Middle East National Resource Centers Language Workshop (April 2025)

Currently, Sosy serves as a Western Armenian lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. Alongside her teaching responsibilities, she works as an Academic Program Developer, contributing to the creation and enhancement of academic programs within her field.

Furthermore, Sosy has future plans to write an Armenian textbook, demonstrating her commitment to educational development and the preservation of the Armenian language.

Languages: Armenian, Arabic, English

Publications

Articles

• "’Comparative Exam of Prepositions in Arabic and Armenian’’, (Կապի Զուգադրական Քննութիւն, Արաբերէն-Հայերէն) Western Armenian Department of the Hrachia Ajaryan Language Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. 2019
  
• ‘’The Literary Movement In Bolis and Zahrad’’  (Պոլսահայ Գրական Շարժումը եւ Զահրատ)  http://abakanews.org/arts-and-culture/պոլսահայ-գրական-շարժումը-եւ-զահրատ/  2018
  
• ‘’The language of Hayr Ghevont Alishan’s book in his ‘’Housigk Hayrenyats’’ writing. https://hairenikweekly.com/հայր-ղեւոնդ-ալիշանի-յուշիկք-հայրենե/  
  
• ‘The Noun Accusative Case and The Study of The Active Voice in Western Armenian (in comparison with Eastern Armenian). It is published in the book of the Western Armenian Department of the Hrachia Ajaryan Language Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia in the name of ‘’Արեւմտահայերէն Հարցեր’’, in Yerevan 2018. (http://language.sci.am/sites/default/files/arm._hartcer.pdf)
  
• 2024. ‘’The Western Armenian in the 21^st century: Challenges and Possibilities’’ in Hrachia Ajarian Language Institute in Yerevan.
  
• 2025. The presence of Armenian in Nancy Kricorian Novel’s Zabelle and The burning Heart of the world ’’ Kantsasar, Aleppo.

Conferences

• 2018 Mkhitaryan’s International Conference Dedicated to the 175th Anniversary of the” Pazmavep “ Arm enological, Philological, Literary Journal and had a speech about ‘’The language of Hayr Ghevont Alishan in His «Յուշիկք Հայրենեաց» writing’’. https://hairenikweekly.com/հայր-ղեւոնդ-ալիշանի-յուշիկք-հայրենե/  
• The border between Artsakh and Azerbejian. WHALI 2023-Border Walls: Navigating exclusion in divided world. 
• Armenian as a second Language: Difficulties and Possibilities’’ Hrachia Ajarian Institute in Armenia, Yerevan. 
• ‘’Seeds of Peace’’ course. Ninth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of intercultural Competence.

Book reviews

• Hagop Ayvaz, My Stage Friends [in Armenian], ed. Y.P. Tovmasian, Sevan Degirmenciyan. Istanbul: Aras, 2020) and published in Journal of The Society for Armenian Studies. https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=ՍՕՍԻ+ՄԻՇՈՅԵԱՆ+ՏԱՊՊԱՂԵԱՆ+%28Sosy+Mishoyan+Dabbaghian%29
  Fallen Pine Cones,  Z. T. Balian/ Library of Congress Control Number: VAKR BOOKS 
• Darpank,  Maroush Yeramian. Kantsasar 2024.
• Resounding Tinkles, Poems & Haiku, Z.T.Balian 2025.