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Asya Darbinyan
Occupation
Researcher
Contact
11 Hawthorne St.
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Clark University
Worcester MA 01610
United States
ABOUT
Asya Darbinyan is a PhD Candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University (Worcester, MA). Her dissertation explores the Russian Empire’s response to the Armenian Genocide and to the refugee crisis at the Caucasus front of the Great War (Advisor: Dr. Taner Akçam). Previously, Darbinyan worked at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan, as a senior research fellow and the Deputy Director of the museum (2008-2013).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Armenian Studies
Human Rights
Middle East/Near East Studies
Foreign Relations
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Armenia
All Middle East
Caucasus
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
The Levant
Specialties
Humanitarianism
Genocide Studies
Russian And Ottoman Empires (late 19th And Beginni
Languages
Armenian (native)
English (fluent)
Russian (fluent)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2019 | History | Clark University
MA | 2009 | International Relations | Yerevan State University
BA | 2007 | International Relations | Yerevan State University
Abstracts
Can Refugees Speak? Humanitarian Crisis at the Ottoman-Russian Border (1914-1917)