Anouche Kunth

Anouche Kunth is a Research Fellow at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), affiliated with the IRIS research institute at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. As a historian specializing in state violence and crimes, she focuses on the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian genocide and its long-term societal consequences.

Her research centers on the trajectories of Armenian survivors exiled by the nascent Republic of Turkey after 1923, examining forced statelessness, displacement routes, and intergenerational trauma during the interwar period. This work positions her at the intersection of genocide studies, migration history, and post-Ottoman transition analysis, with particular emphasis on how displaced communities navigated legal limbo and cultural erasure.

Dr. Kunth's publications reveal consistent scholarly focus on Armenian exile experiences, with her 2016 and 2023 monographs establishing frameworks for understanding state-driven erasure beyond physical violence. Her analysis of diaspora formation from the Caucasus to Paris highlights refugee agency within systemic oppression, contributing significantly to 20th-century European and Middle Eastern historical studies.

As co-editor of 'Sensibilités. History, Criticism and Social Sciences', she actively shapes interdisciplinary discourse while maintaining rigorous archival methodology in her primary research on genocide aftermaths and statelessness.