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Department of Sociology

Vicky Panossian

 
PhD Candidate
Email: vicky.panossian@warwick.ac.uk

Pronouns: She/Her
Research Interests: Migration and Refugee Studies, Material Culture, 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 issues pertaining to object-oriented histories of migration. 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. Her project is supervised by Prof Hannah Jones and Dr Cath Lambert.

Vicky is a member of the Migration Research Hub by IMISCOE and the British Art Network. She is also the co-convenor of the newly established Warwick University Material Culture Network which brings together postgraduate students from different disciplines who work on and with material culture.

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).
Panossian, Vicky. 2021. 'Ideological Alingualism and the Spectrum of Alienation at the Gates of Contemporary Lebanese Academia'. Rethinking the Curriculum in Lebanon and the Arab World: Reconciliating Ideologies and Pedagogies.
Panossian, Vicky. 2020. 'Mapping the Multi-layered Self: Third Generation of Armenian “Refugees” in Lebanon'. Humanities Graduate Student Association: Designing the Self (HUGSA), York University.