Annika Törne (Toerne)
Associate Professor
About
Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
Annika Toerne received her PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from Basel University, Switzerland, for her research on hegemonic discourses and memory narratives of Zazaki-speaking Alevis and descendants of Armenian survivors from Dersim, a culturally distinct and diverse mountainous region in Eastern Turkey.
Her research interests are focussed on memory studies, more specifically on oral tradition and intergenerational transmission of knowledge during the twentieth century until today, with special interest in processes of minoritization, in migration, narrative identity, autobiographical narratives, mythology, as well as social and spatial justice.
Annika Toerne is member of the editorial group of “Iran and the Caucasus” (Brill: Leiden- Boston) and a member of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, AIEA,
Société des Études Arméniennes, S.E.A., and the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. She has widely published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Iran & the Caucasus, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Review of Middle East Studies, and Études Arméniennes Contemporaines.
Annika Toerne received her PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from Basel University, Switzerland, for her research on hegemonic discourses and memory narratives of Zazaki-speaking Alevis and descendants of Armenian survivors from Dersim, a culturally distinct and diverse mountainous region in Eastern Turkey.
Her research interests are focussed on memory studies, more specifically on oral tradition and intergenerational transmission of knowledge during the twentieth century until today, with special interest in processes of minoritization, in migration, narrative identity, autobiographical narratives, mythology, as well as social and spatial justice.
Annika Toerne is member of the editorial group of “Iran and the Caucasus” (Brill: Leiden- Boston) and a member of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, AIEA,
Société des Études Arméniennes, S.E.A., and the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. She has widely published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Iran & the Caucasus, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Review of Middle East Studies, and Études Arméniennes Contemporaines.