Anna Harutyunyan, M.A.

Mitarbeiterin im Teilprojekt B4: Identitätspolitik (Kaukasus)

Kontaktinformationen

Telefon:	2093-
Email:	harutyunyan_anna@yahoo.com
Sitz:	Mohrenstr. 40/41
Raum:	124

Lebenslauf

April 1, 2010 - Present: Research Fellow, 'Representations of Changing Social Orders', Collaborative Research Center no. 640, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin
October 01, 2009 – March 31, 2010: Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
October 2006 – Present: PhD Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
September 2001 – June 2002: Master of Arts in Gender and Culture, Central European University, Department of Gender and Culture, Budapest, Hungary
September 1993 – June 1998: Diploma with Distinction in Intercultural Communication and Linguistics, Voronezh State University, Department of Romance-Germanic Philology, Voronezh, Russia
September 1995 – October 1997: Diploma with Distinction in Practical Psychology, ‘Insight’ School of Practical Psychology, Voronezh, Russia

Research Interests

Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Migration, City, Post-Socialism

Teaching Experience

Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Ethnology, Berlin, Germany

Winter Semester 2009/10 Lecturer, teaching “Theories of Diaspora” for BA Students, conduct of lectures, seminars, field visits, supervision of term papers;

Winter Semester 2008/09 Lecturer, teaching “Gender and Diaspora” for BA, MA and Magister (Diploma) Students, conduct of in-class and outreach activities, field visits, supervision of term papers

Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov, Yerevan, Armenia

Sept. 02 – June 2004 Lecturer, teaching “Gender and Culture” and “Gender and Nationalism through Armenian Cinematography”, conduct of outreach activities, supervision of term papers

Research Projects

November 2005 – March 2006, Assessing the Enabling Governance Environment to Promote and Enforce Women’s Rights in the Southern Caucasus: Gender Equality Dimension in the Armenian Legislation, funded by World Bank and Norwegian/Dutch Fund for Gender Mainstreaming,

January – July 2003, Women's Participation in the Armenian Electoral Processes: Armenia Parliamentary and Presidential Elections 2003, Individual Research

June 2003, Research on Corruption and Democratization; Research Assistant to Christoph H. Stefes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Colorado at Denver,

2002 – 2003, Anthropological Research in Armenian Rural Families: Verishen, Mets Mazra and David Bek villages, Siuniq Region, Armenia, Individual Research

List of Publications

Challenging the Theory of Diaspora from the Field, to be published in August 2010 in ''Working Papers des SFB 640'', Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin

Review of an Online Festschrift Dedicated to the Festival Man, Dr. Levon Abrahamian (in Eng.), published in special issue of "Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research” in January 2010, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Cultural Diversity and Belonging: Negotiating Identities in the Armenian Community of Berlin,(in Eng.) published in the Scientific Armenological Journal of the Haigazian University in Beirut, Lebanon, May 2009.

Hinter den Ararat schauen, (in German), published in Internationales Studienzentrum Berlin ISB 2007-08 Jahresbuch, Berlin, Germany, 2008.

Gleiche Chancen in der Politik: Wie setzt man Gleichberechtigung in die Praxis um, (in German), published in Internationales Studienzentrum Berlin ISB 2006-07 Jahresbuch, Berlin, Germany, 2007.

Equal Opportunity Politics in Armenia: How to Put Equality into Practice?” (in Engl. and Arm.), published in Armenian Women Social Science Journal, March 2005.

Resistance in Teaching and Learning Environment”, (in Engl.) published in Higher Education in Transition, Civic Education Project, 2003.

Armenian Family and De-Modernization”, (in Arm.) published in social science journal “Psychology and Life”, 2003.

Professional Experience

Armenia Country Coordinator, Open Society Institute, Academic Fellowship Program, Yerevan, Armenia

September 02, 2004 – June 01, 2006

Project Associate, United Nations Development Program, Gender and Politics Programme in Southern Caucasus, Yerevan, Armenia

May 01, 2004 – September 1, 2004

Program Officer/Trainer, Education for Sustainable Development Foundation, NGO, Yerevan, Armenia

July, 2003 – April 04

Fellowships

Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst/DAAD and Open Society Institute/OSI Full Scholarship

June 2006 – September 2009, for 3-year PhD studies at the Free University Berlin Institute of Ethnology, Berlin, Germany

Civic Education Project/CEP, Local Faculty Fellowship for teaching at Yerevan Universities (see teaching experience)

September 2002 – June 2004, Yerevan, Armenia

OSI Full Fellowship for MA Studies at the Department of Gender and Culture, Central European University

September 2001 – June 2002, Budapest, Hungary

Selected Conferences

February 12 – 14, 2010	International Conference on the Armenian Diaspora, organized by the Institute for Diaspora Studies, Boston University, MA, USA Paper: Challenging the Diaspora from the Field
May 30 – June 1, 2008	Migrations, Connections, Perspectives: Anatolia and Its Neighboring Regions in the Twentieth Century, organized by the Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey; Paper: Turkish Armenians in In-Between Spaces
February 14, 2008	Graduate Student Association Conference in Armenian Studies, organized by UCLA, USA Paper: Cultural Diversity and Belonging: Negotiating Identities in the Armenian Community of Berlin
June 2007	Conference “Politics of Exclusion and Return: The Phenomenon of Diaspora Formations”, organized by Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research (BIVS), in cooperation with the EUROFOR Network Paper:“Youth Drawing a Boundary: Third Generation of Armenians and De-cohesion of the Armenian Church Community in Berlin”