Gohar Stepanyan is a cultural anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. She received her PhD in History from the same institute in 2007.
Her research focuses on ritual and festivity, vernacular Christianity, Soviet political repressions, and the everyday life and memory of Soviet and post-Soviet societies. In recent years, her work has increasingly focused on the anthropology of forced displacement and refugee studies.
She is the author of From New Year to the Last Bell: Festive Practices, Memory, and Reconstruction (Yerevan: IAE Publishing, 2020, 432 pages) and has published around thirty scholarly articles.