Vahe Sahakyan, PhD
Research Areas:
Armenia / Armenian Studies, Armenian Diaspora Studies, Armenian History, Armenian-American Studies, Comparative Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies / History, Immigrants / Immigration, Immigration Narratives, Race / EthnicityBiography and Education
Vahe Sahakyan is a Research Scholar and Senior Information Resources Specialist at the 每日大赛 Armenian Research Center. He holds a Candidate of Sciences in Sociology degree from Yerevan State University (2003) and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan (2015).
Sahakyan has held various teaching, research, and administrative appointments at Yerevan State University (2000-2008), and at the University of Michigan (2008-2017). Since 2018, he has also served on the Armenian Diaspora Survey Academic Advisory Committee. The Armenian Diaspora Survey was a project sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and implemented under the auspices of the Armenian Institute, London between 2018 and 2022.
Sahakyan鈥檚 research interests include immigration, transnationalism and diaspora studies, history and sociology of the modern and contemporary Armenian diaspora.
Selected Publications
Books
2022 (Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology). 钥铡咋沾崭詹 謬 窄沾闸铡眨斋謤諠 諑铡瞻榨 諐铡瞻铡寨盏铡斩, 缘謤謬铡斩, 缘諍諃 瞻謤铡湛铡謤铡寨展崭謧诈盏崭謧斩, 2022 (Compiler and Editor)
Articles, book chapters
2023 in Sossie Kasbarian, Talar Chahinian, Tsolin Nalbantian (eds.), The Armenian Diaspora and 鈥楽tateless Power鈥: Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century. London: I. B. Tauris, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 107-134.
2021 鈥,鈥 EVN Report, April 26, 2021.
2020 "Diaspora, Ethnicity, and the Concept of the "Armenian Transnation": Brief Notes on Diaspora Theory and Practice," in , Vol. 2, eds. Ashot Voskanyan, Thomas Schrapel (Yerevan: Armenian Research Center in Humanities, 2020), 337-344. (English and Armenian bilingual publication)
2018 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫;颈苍&苍产蝉辫;An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion, eds. Kathryn Babayan, Michael Pifer ([S.I.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 247-267.
2018 EVN Report, January 20, 2018.
Eastern Armenian translation: 鈥溾 諃铡盏 战崭謥斋崭宅崭眨斋铡寨铡斩 沾湛謩斋 铡斩诈崭宅崭眨斋铡, (缘謤謬铡斩謮 缘謤謬铡斩斋 蘸榨湛铡寨铡斩 瞻铡沾铡宅战铡謤铡斩, 2018), 528-537.
2006 鈥,鈥 Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 14, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 347-354. (Co-authored with Arthur Atanesyan).
Other research-based publications
2020 鈥淚dentity: Family, Language and Culture are Defining Constituents of Hyphenated Armenianness,鈥 in , ed. Hratch Tchilingirian (London: Armenian Institute, 2020): 11-15.
2020 鈥淟anguage and Culture: Majority of Armenians Keep Language and Culture Vital, high-Quality Armenian Schools are in Demand鈥 in , ed. Hratch Tchilingirian (London: Armenian Institute, 2020): 23-27.
2019 鈥淐ommunity Engagement: Busy Lives Require More Interesting Activities, Visionary Leadership and Focus on the Younger Generation鈥 in , ed. Hratch Tchilingirian (London: Armenian Institute, 2019): 19-20.
2019 鈥淟anguage and Culture: Armenian Schools and Cultural Education Continue to Play Important Roles in the Diaspora鈥 in , ed. Hratch Tchilingirian (London: Armenian Institute, 2019): 21-23.