Current Projects


Language, Education, and Knowledge Politics in Armenia 

This project examines how Armenian, Russian, and English shape education, knowledge production, and institutional authority in post-Soviet Armenia. It considers how language structures access to scholarship, professional mobility, and international participation, while asking how locally grounded knowledge becomes credible and visible within English-dominated academic and digital systems.

Bringing together research on language policy, English-medium education, translingual writing, and public knowledge platforms, the project investigates language not simply as a medium of communication but as an infrastructure through which intellectual authority and geopolitical orientation are negotiated.

Seeing Difference:  Race and Visual-Material Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet World

This project studies how images, monuments, public art, exhibitions, textbooks, and other material forms have participated in producing and organizing social difference in the Soviet and post-Soviet world. I am particularly interested in how visual-material culture made racial, ethnic, national, gendered, and cultural distinctions perceptible, and how these representations shaped political identity, public memory, and understandings of social hierarchy.

The project also traces the afterlives of these representational forms after socialism, asking how inherited objects, images, monuments, and sites of cultural heritage are preserved, contested, appropriated, altered, or defamiliarized as societies renegotiate history, memory, and political belonging. Rather than treating visual and material culture simply as representations of ideology, I examine how such forms organize ways of seeing social worlds and make particular relationships among people, histories, and places imaginable.


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