Dissertation Research: Construction and Reconstruction: Place, History, and Ethnic Identity in Soviet Armenia

该项目支持一位在苏联亚美尼亚的文化人类学专业学生的学位论文研究。这名学生将采访两个苏联亚美尼亚村庄的居民，1988年地震后，当地和散居国外的亚美尼亚人正在合作进行重建项目。该项目将研究重建如何在苏联解体的当前不断变化的宏观政治背景下反映当地对亚美尼亚民族身份的概念。通过参与者观察、住宅调查和正式访谈，学生将看到普通公民以及建筑师和开发商如何在他们的建筑计划中表达亚美尼亚人的身份。这项研究之所以重要，是因为了解东欧人民的民族主义情感和价值观在历史上的这个时候至关重要，因为苏联帝国缩小了它的范围。

This project supports the dissertation research of a cultural anthropology student in Soviet Armenia. The student will interview residents of two Soviet Armenian villages where local and diasporan Armenians are collaborating in reconstruction projects following the 1988 earthquake. The project will study how the rebuilding reflects local conceptions of national Armenian identity in the current changing macro-political context of a dissolved Soviet Union. Using participant observation, residential surveys, and formal interviews, the student will see how plain citizens as well as architects and developers express Armenian identity in their construction plans. This research is important because knowledge of the nationalist feelings and values of Eastern European peoples is critically important at this time in history, as the Soviet empire reduces its scope.