Sossie Kasbarian is Senior Lecturer in Politics. She joined History, Heritage and Politics at Stirling in November 2017. She earned her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and has taught at SOAS, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), the University of Lancaster, and the American University in Cairo. She is co-editor of Diaspora- A Journal of Transnational Studies.
Dr Kasbarian's research is situated in the intersections of Comparative Politics; Political Sociology; Middle East Politics; Diaspora Studies; Refugee and Migration Studies; and Armenian Studies. She is involved in several inter-disciplinary research projects that bridge the South Caucasus, the Middle East and Europe, through comparative study of conflict, displacement, refugeehood, migration and diaspora.
She is the editor (with Anthony Gorman) of Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualising Community (Edinburgh University Press 2015), and co-editor (with Talar Chahinian and Tsolin Nalbantian) of Diaspora and ‘Stateless Power’: Social Discipline and Identity Formation Across the Armenian Diaspora during the Long Twentieth Century (forthcoming). She is currently working on her monograph, The Armenian Middle East - Remnants, Resilience and Reconfigurations.
Journal Editor
Editor of Diaspora - a journal of transnational studies, published by University of Toronto Press
Diaspora Studies; Modern Middle East; Nationalism Studies; Migration and Refugee Studies; Armenian Studies; Comparative Politics; Postcolonial Studies
Should I stay or should I go: sense of belonging and intentions to stay among young, newcomers to Armenia
PI: Dr Sarah Wilson
Funded by: The British Academy
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Book Chapter
The Armenian Middle East - Boundaries, pathways and horizons
Kasbarian S (2022) The Armenian Middle East - Boundaries, pathways and horizons. In: Abdelhady D & Aly R (eds.) The Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429266102
Article
Kasbarian S (2022) Fault Lines and Fractures in the 2020 Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh War: Silence, Absence, and Erasure in Middle East Studies - Introduction. International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Book Review
Kasbarian S (2022) Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks—Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide. Marc David Baer (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020). Pp. 360. $95.00 cloth, $45.00 paper. ISBN: 9780253045416. Review of: Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks—Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide. Marc David Baer (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020). Pp. 360. ISBN: 9780253045416. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 54 (1), pp. 182-184. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743821001252
Book Chapter
Refuge in the 'homeland': The Syrians in Armenia
Kasbarian S (2020) Refuge in the 'homeland': The Syrians in Armenia. In: Laycock J & Piana F (eds.) Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and intervention from the 1890s to the present. Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 164-180. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526142207/
Book Chapter
Between Nationalist Absorption and Subsumption: Reflecting on the Armenian Cypriot Experience
Kasbarian S (2018) Between Nationalist Absorption and Subsumption: Reflecting on the Armenian Cypriot Experience. In: Kyritsi T & Christofis N (eds.) Cypriot Nationalisms in Context: History, Identity and Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 177-198. https://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9783319978031
Article
The politics of memory and commemoration: Armenian diasporic reflections on 2015
Kasbarian S (2018) The politics of memory and commemoration: Armenian diasporic reflections on 2015. Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 46 (1), pp. 123-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2017.1347917
Book Review
The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics, and History
Kasbarian S (2017) The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics, and History. Review of: Suciyan, Talin. The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics, and History. (London: I. B. Tauris, 2016), 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1-7845-3171-3.. Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, 8 (2), pp. 205-210. https://doi.org/10.5325/bustan.8.2.0205
Newspaper / Magazine
Denial of the Armenian Genocide should concern us all
Kasbarian S (2017) Denial of the Armenian Genocide should concern us all. The Conversation. 24.04.2017. https://theconversation.com/denial-of-the-armenian-genocide-should-concern-us-all-76537
Book Chapter
The Istanbul Armenians: negotiating coexistence
Kasbarian S (2016) The Istanbul Armenians: negotiating coexistence. In: Bryant R (ed.) Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict. Space and Place. New York: Berghahn Press, pp. 207-237. http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BryantPost-Ottoman#toc; https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1kgqw2h.13
Article
Kasbarian S & Oktem K (2016) One hundred years later - the personal, the political and the historical in four new books on the Armenian Genocide. Caucasus Survey, 4 (1), pp. 92-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/23761199.2015.1129787
Article
Contested spaces and sectarian narratives in post-uprising Bahrain
Kasbarian S & Mabon S (2016) Contested spaces and sectarian narratives in post-uprising Bahrain. Global Discourse, 6 (4), pp. 677-696. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2016.1259232
Edited Book
Diasporas of the Modern Middle East - Contextualising Community
Gorman A & Kasbarian S (eds.) (2015) Diasporas of the Modern Middle East - Contextualising Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-diasporas-of-the-modern-middle-east.html
Book Chapter
Communities, exiles, minorities and diasporas: the Middle East in diaspora studies
Gorman A & Kasbarian S (2015) Communities, exiles, minorities and diasporas: the Middle East in diaspora studies. In: Gorman { & Kasbarian S (eds.) Diasporas of the modern Middle East - Contextualising Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-27. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-diasporas-of-the-modern-middle-east.html
Book Chapter
The 'Others' within: the Armenian Community in Cyprus
Kasbarian S (2015) The 'Others' within: the Armenian Community in Cyprus. In: Gorman A & Kasbarian S (eds.) Diasporas of the modern Middle East - Contextualising Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 241-273. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-diasporas-of-the-modern-middle-east.html
Article
The myth and reality of "return" - diaspora in the "homeland"
Kasbarian S (2015) The myth and reality of "return" - diaspora in the "homeland". Diaspora, 18 (3), pp. 358-381. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/603493/summary
Newspaper / Magazine
It's time the world recognised the Armenian Genocide
Kasbarian S (2015) It's time the world recognised the Armenian Genocide. The Conversation. 24.04.2015. https://theconversation.com/its-time-the-world-recognised-the-armenian-genocide-40576
Article
Armenians, Turks and Kurds beyond denial: an introduction
Kasbarian S & Oktem K (2014) Armenians, Turks and Kurds beyond denial: an introduction. Patterns of Prejudice, 48 (2), pp. 115-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2014.910893
Article
Subversive friendships: Turkish and Armenian encounters in transnational space
Kasbarian S & Oktem K (2014) Subversive friendships: Turkish and Armenian encounters in transnational space. Patterns of Prejudice, 48 (2), pp. 121-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2014.900208
Newspaper / Magazine
A discourse of denial: memories of the Armenian genocide
Kasbarian S (2014) A discourse of denial: memories of the Armenian genocide. openDemocracy. 06.08.2014. https://www.opendemocracy.net/sossie-kasbarian/discourse-of-denial-memories-of-armenian-genocide
Article
Kasbarian S (2013) Diasporic voices from the peripheries: Armenian experiences on the edges of community in Cyprus and Lebanon. The Cyprus Review, 25 (1), pp. 81-110. https://www.unic.ac.cy/sites/default/files/research/cyprus_review/volume_21_onwards/vol_25_no_1_spring_2013.pdf
Book Chapter
Kasbarian S (2009) The Armenian Community in Cyprus at the Beginning of the 21st Century: From Insecurity to Integration. In: Varnavas A, Coureas N & Elia M (eds.) The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of Internal-Exclusion. Newcastle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 175-191. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-minorities-of-cyprus-16
Article
Whose Space, Whose Interests?: Clashes within Armenian Diasporic Civil Society
Kasbarian S (2009) Whose Space, Whose Interests?: Clashes within Armenian Diasporic Civil Society. Armenian Review, 51 (1-4), pp. 81-109. http://www.armenianreview.org/recent.htm
I convene/teach the following undergraduate modules:
POLU9CP: Comparative Politics – Power, States and Societies
POLU9CM: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
POLU9NT: Nations and Nationalism
and the following postgraduate modules:
ICCPP25: Migrants, Refugees and Diasporas - Conflict and Coexistence
ICCPP27: International Organisations (2021-2022)