Dr Sossie Kasbarian

Current Activities:

Research interests:

Diaspora Studies, Diasporas and Minorities of the Middle East, the Armenian Diaspora, Armenian-Turkish relations,modern history and politics of Cyprus, identity issues, citizenship and the state, nationalism and ethnicity, postcolonial theory
 

Qualifications:

PhD, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), 2006

MA, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), 1999

BA, University of Kent, 1994

Publications:

‘The ‘Others’ Within – the Armenians in Cyprus’ chapter in Shifting Boundaries: Nationalism and Transnationalism in Southeastern Europe. Eds. K. Oktem and D. Bechev (Brill Publishers, forthcoming 2011).

‘The Armenian Community in Cyprus at the Beginning of the 21st Century: From Insecurity to Integration’, chapter in The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of Internal-Exclusion. Eds. A. Varnavas, N. Coureas and M. Elia (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).

‘Whose Space, Whose Interests? Clashes within Armenian Diasporic Civil Society’ Armenian Review Volume 51, Number 1-4 (Fall-Winter 2009) 81-109.