Hasmik Knyazyan

Hasmik Knyazyan is a cultural anthropologist and Junior Researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. She earned her Master’s degree in Ethnography from Yerevan State University and continued her studies in Cultural Anthropology at the European University at Saint Petersburg. Her research focuses on the anthropology of memory, oral history, Soviet everyday life, intangible cultural heritage, as well as visual and urban anthropology. Since 2014, she has participated in numerous interdisciplinary research and applied anthropology projects related to memory studies, community development, cultural heritage, and urban transformation.

Alongside her academic work, Hasmik has extensive experience in research administration and project management. From 2022 to 2024, she served as Head of the Yerevan Center for International Education Foundation, where she coordinated international conferences, public lectures, intensive courses, and summer schools. She currently serves as Project Manager of Horizon Europe–funded STREACS project at the American University of Armenia (AUA) Acopian Center for the Environment and is a Co-Investigator of the five-year project “Crisis and Memory: Digital Oral History Laboratory” at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography. Her current work also includes collecting and digitally archiving oral histories of forcibly displaced Armenians from Artsakh.