Allison Grenda
Department of History of Art PhD Candidate
Interests: Byzantine art and architecture, cross-cultural contact in the Medieval Mediterranean, urban crisis and resilience, the history of archaeology.
Languages: Greek (Ancient and Byzantine), French
Education: MA in Art History (UC Davis); BA in Communication Studies (UCLA)
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)
