Hayarpi Papikyan specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Armenian studies, the history of Armenian women, and the history and sociology of schooling and institutionalized education. She received her doctoral degree in History and Sociology of Education from the Université Paris V - Sorbonne Cité in 2018. Her doctoral thesis, “Education on the edge of Empire: Schooling girls and winning public roles for Armenian women in the Caucasus (XIX – early XX centuries),” received the honorable mention for the Robert Mallet Prize in the field of the History of Education held by the Ministry of National Education of France “for the quality of analysis, the diversity of sources and registers analyzed.” Since 2019, Hayarpi Papikyan has been working at the American University of Armenia and conducting research at the National Archives in Yerevan and other local archives in Armenia.
Education, Degree
PhD, Université Paris V – Sorbonne Cité
Office location
PAB 430W
Office hours
Varies depending on teaching schedule
Areas of research and teaching specialization
Social history, sociology, research design and implementation
Courses currently taught
PG 231 Capstone project supervision
PG 206 Political sociology
PG 203 Qualitative research methods
PG103 Methods of political inquiry
PG 102 Introduction to political inquiry
PSIA 271 Religion and politics
Ongoing research projects
Life and work of woman writer Yekaterina Bahaturian
Publications
Papikyan, H. (2025). Reimagining the borders of the textual nation: The case of Armenian literary periodical Murch & women’s writing. Journal of European Periodical Studies, 10(2), 17–32. https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.92167
Papikyan, H. (2024). The case of Shushi Seminary: Russian colonial government’s taming of a
“separatist” community in the Caucasus borderland. Slavonic and East European Review, 102, 4, 630- 658. https://doi.org/10.1353/see.00057
Papikyan, H. (2024). L’autobiographie de Maro Nazarbekian : trajectoire et autoperception dans
l’autobiographie communiste. Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique, 65, 153-178. https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.14557
Papikyan, H. & Rogers, R. (2022). Girls’ schools and Empire (nineteenth and twentieth centuries). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1697
Papikyan, H. (2021). Femmes arméniennes et pédagogie fröbelienne : Entre patriotisme éducatif et professionnalisation des institutrices préscolaires. Paedagogica Historica, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2021.1924807
Papikyan, H. (2021). Premières écoles pour filles au Caucase : Une mission de russification.
Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe. https://ehne.fr/fr/node/21534