Dr. Anahid Matossian
Research Interests:
Anthropology of the State
'Migration'
identity
Diaspora
Conflict
Anthropology of the Middle East
South Caucasus
Refugees
Memory
Armenia
Syria
Applied Anthropology
Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Anthropology
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Kentucky, in progress
M.A. Anthropology, University of Kentucky, 2018
M.S. Anthropology, Purdue University, 2013
B.A. Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 2011
Biography
I am a cultural anthropologist with research interests in the state, competing nationalisms, identity, and gendered dynamics of forced migration, specifically within the context of ethnic Armenian refuge-seeking women from Syria living in Armenia. I am interested in how state messages about identity impact women's conceptualizations of "home" in their perceived ancestral homeland.
