Dr. Anahid Matossian | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Dr. Anahid Matossian

Contact Information

anahid.matossian@uky.edu

Research Interests

Anthropology of the State
'Migration'
identity
Diaspora
Conflict
Anthropology of the Middle East
South Caucasus
Refugees
Memory
Armenia
Syria
Applied Anthropology

Affiliations

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.