Hrag Papazian holds a 2020 DPhil degree in anthropology from the University of Oxford where his dissertation about Armenians in contemporary Turkey was awarded the David Parkin Prize in Ethnographic Materials. His research interests include religion, ethnicity, and race; migration, diasporas, and citizenship; conflict, politics, and activism; as well as social boundaries and their making, with a regional and thematic focus on Turkey and Armenia. Papazian’s peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Turkish Studies, Citizenship Studies, and Ethnopolitics, and he's currently working on his book. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, a Visiting Professor at CSU Fresno, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
https://aua.academia.edu/HragPapazian
135W
Courses
CHSS 194 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
CHSS 290 Cultural Geography
CHSS 288 Modern Turkey
EC290 Research Methods
Office hours
Mondays: 10:25 – 11:25am
Wednesdays and Fridays: 10:25-11:25 & 12:30-13:00
Publications:
(peer reviewed)
Journal Articles
2023 “Turkey and ‘Turks’ in Postwar Armenia: Anxieties, meanings, and politics after the 2020 Karabakh war”, Ethnopolitics, DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2023.2176587
2022 “Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey.” Citizenship Studies, 27:4, 481-497. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2022.2151571 (Co-author: Salim Aykut Öztürk)
2017 “Between Gezi Park and Kamp Armen: The intersectional activism of leftist Armenian youths in Istanbul.” Turkish Studies, 18:1, 56-76. DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2016.1266616
Book Chapters
2023 “Are Istanbul Armenians Diasporic? Unpacking the Famous Debate” In Diaspora and ‘Stateless Power’: the Armenian Experience through the Transnational 20th Century, edited by Tsolin Nalbantian, Talar Chahinian and Sossie Kasbarian. Chapter 11.
2018 “Between Gezi Park and Kamp Armen: The intersectional activism of leftist Armenian youths in Istanbul.” In Conventional versus non-conventional political participation in Turkey: dimensions, means, and consequences, edited by Ayhan Kaya and Cristiano Bee. London: Routledge. (reprint)
(non-peer reviewed)
Web-based (selection)
2022 “Post-war distrust complicates new Armenia-Turkey talks”, OpenDemocracy, January 12, 2022. https://tinyurl.com/358s49j3
2021 “Turkey’s Armenians’ move towards Armenia: Research notes”, Jamanak, June 25, 2021. https://bit.ly/2YJEw2l [3-part series, in Armenian]
2020 “Armenians and Other Armenians in Turkey”, Illustrating Anthropology. https://illustratinganthropology.com/hrag-papazian/
Book Chapter
2021 “Armenians and Other Armenians in Turkey”, In Critical Approaches to Armenian Identity in the 21st Century: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Transformation. Conference Proceedings, ed. A. Yılmaz, 153-161. Istanbul: HDF Publications.