Vicky Panossian
Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant
Email: vicky.panossian@warwick.ac.uk (Research) ; vicky.panossian.1@warwick.ac.uk (Teaching)
Pronouns: She/Her
Research Interests: Trauma-Informed Research, Material Culture Studies, Creative Methodologies, Middle East Studies, Migration Studies
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. My project is funded by the Chancellor's International Scholarship. My research explores topics related to migrant identity formation, affective dimensions of object preservation, and the memory politics of inheritance. I am interested in experimenting with the development of trauma-informed sensory research methodologies, specifically focusing on the role of sensory creative methods such as pottery. My PhD project is supervised by Prof Hannah Jones and Dr Cath Lambert.
I am currently a Visiting Lecturer of International Relations at the University of Wolverhampton. I am also the project assistant for the Monash-Warwick Alliance funded project on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and Practice in Higher Education Settings.
I am on the organising committee of the Graduate Seminar Series at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. Since 2024, I have been the postgraduate student representative of the Warwick Art Collection Committee, and the co-convenor of the Material Culture Network for researchers working on and with material culture.
I am a member of the Migration Research Hub (IMISCOE) , British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), and the British Art Network (BAN).
Teaching
2025-2026
- SO264 - Powerful Feelings: Emotion as Social and Political
2024-2025
- SO127 - Crime & Society
- SO129 - Criminology: Theories and Concepts
Selected Publications
For a more comprehensive list of 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
- Vicky Panossian. 2025. ' Social Inheritance Law'. in The Sage International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender edited by L. K. Roberts. SAGE Publications. doi: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071918494
- 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, and Salma Yassine. 2025. 'Photogrammetry as Alternative Memory Landscapes of War Zones: The Role of AI in Spatial Nostalgia for Arabic Speaking Migrants in the UK'. Research and Educational Advancements in Culture and Technology.
- Panossian, Vicky. 2025. 'Inheriting Loss: The Material Culture of Loss among Arabic Speaking Communities in the UK'. British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES): Destruction, Loss, and Recovery in the Middle East.
- 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).