Hayrapetyan researches Turkey’s post-genocidal period and the return of Armenian genocide survivors as a conflict resolution strategy in the process of Turkish nation-state formation. According to different calculations, approximately 250,000 Armenians who returned Turkey in the aftermath of Genocide. Her dissertation, The foundation of Turkish Republic and the problem of Armenian returnees; 1918-1938, will uncover the experiences of returnee and remainee Armenian population between 1918-1938 in the Republic of Turkey, the process related to the reestablishment and re-socialization of the Armenian community at both the individual and communal levels, and the role of ethnic and racial markers during the period of re-integration. This includes interactions with local and central actors, as well as the ways in which the Armenian community experienced religious, economic, educational, and legal modernization reforms under the Kemalist regime through the circles of mass violence, exclusion and a constant minoritization and marginalization policies. Her dissertation project will consider the implications of what it meant to be an Armenian Genocide survivor during the processes of nation state building, ringing from the transformative periods of the Ottoman Empire to the Nationalist Movement, and finally, the Republic of Turkey.
Advisor: Frances Tanzer
Education:
- B.A., Turkology, Yerevan State University, 2007
- M.A., Turkology, Yerevan State University, 2009
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Fellowships:
- Howard Fromson Fellowship, 2020-2021
- AGBU US graduate scholarship, 2021-2022
- Richard Melik Simonian Charitable Trust Scholarship, 2021-2022
