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Department of Sociology

Vicky Panossian

 
PhD Candidate

Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant

Email: vicky.panossian@warwick.ac.uk

Pronouns: She/Her
Research Interests: Migration Studies, Material Culture, Creative Methodologies, Middle East Studies

Biography 

Vicky is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her project is funded by the Chancellor's International Scholarship. She is working on objects of cultural identification of Arabic-speaking migrant communities in the UK.

She is specifically interested in object-oriented histories of migration and the use of creative research methods. Her research explores topics related to migrant identity formation, object preservation and inheritance as well as the role of objects in defining the familial histories of migration. Vicky's PhD project is supervised by Prof Hannah Jones and Dr Cath Lambert. Her Master's thesis was based on her research regarding the social networks of Arabic-speaking communities in Berlin.

Vicky is the student representative of the Warwick Art Collection Committee. She is the co-convenor of the Material Culture Network for postgraduate students who work on and with material culture. She is also a member of the Migration Research Hub by IMISCOE and the British Art Network.

Teaching

2024/2025

  • Term 1: SO127 - Crime & Society
    • Advice & Feedback Hours: Wednesdays 12-2pm, Room D0.02
  • Term 2: SO129 - Criminology: Theories and Concepts 
    • Advice & Feedback Hours: Tuesdays 12-2pm, Room D0.02

Selected Publications 

For a more comprehensive list of Vicky's publications, please visit her Google Scholar Profile.

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Panossian, Vicky. 2022. ‘Solidifying Identity Discourse through the Politicized Monumentation of Struggle’. Digest of Middle East Studies 31(2):151–63. doi: 10.1111/dome.12264
  • Sadaka, George, and Vicky Panossian. 2022. 'Policing Victorian Women’s Desire: Retracing Mirrored Patriarchy in Jane Eyre and Villette'. The Journal of the Brontë Society 47 (2): 128–140. doi: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2043675
  • Panossian, Vicky. 2022. ‘The Metamorphosis: A Literary Analysis of the Arab Muslim Refugee’s Interpersonal Struggles of Integration in London’. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 49(1):56–69. doi: 10.1080/13530194.2020.1758034
  • Panossian, Vicky. 2021. ‘Analyzing Diasporic Pedagogical Representations of Historical Violence against Women: The Case of Armenians of the Levant’. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 43(2):165–84. doi: 10.1080/10714413.2021.1911287

Book Chapters

  • Yassine, Salma, and Vicky Panossian. 2024. ‘Feiruz: Deconstructing a Legacy’. in Transnational Arab Stardom: Glamour, Performance and Politics, edited by K. D. Hayon and S. V. de Peer. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Panossian, Vicky, and Salma Yassine. 2023. ‘Liberating the Victorian Politics of Love through Jack the Lass and Anne Lister’. in Love and the Politics of Intimacy: Bodies, Boundaries, Liberation, edited by S. Dikova, W. McMahon, and J. Savage. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
  • Panossian, Vicky. 2022. ‘Ideological Sadism or Cultural Enhancement: Thirteenth-Century Mongols in Kievan Rus and Baghdad’. in Painful Pleasures. Manchester University Press.
  • Panossian, Vicky, and Salma Yassine. 2021. ‘The Subtle Case of Beirut: Translingualism in the English-Medium Undergraduate Literature Classroom’. in Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom. Routledge.

Conference Presentations

  • Panossian, Vicky. 2024. 'Interactive Workshop: Exploring Play Based Research Methods'. ESRC Midlands Graduate School Student Conference.
  • Panossian, Vicky. 2024. 'The Social Role of Objects: Material Culture as Post-Migration Knowledge Production'. BSA Conference: Being, Becoming and Belonging: Exploring Diasporic Identities.
  • Panossian, Vicky. 2024. 'The Identity Politics of Dialect Nationalism Among Arab Migrants'. Nations and Nationalisms 2.0: Theories, Practices and Methods.
  • Panossian, Vicky. 2024. 'Play & Vulnerability as Migrant Activism: The Case of Little Amal'. St Andrews University PGR Conference: Play & Pleasure.
  • Panossian, Vicky. 2021. ‘‪Monuments, Tolerance and Integration: Solidifying of the Refugee Identity‬’. SEPAD, University of Lancaster.
  • Yassine, Salma, and Vicky Panossian. 2021. ‘‪Gendering Empathy in UNHCR Reports: A Decade of Photographed Women Representing the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis‬’. IMISCOE Network, Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM).