Anoush Tamar Suni

Anoush Tamar Suni serves as a Research Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and holds faculty affiliation with the Center for Armenian Studies (CAS) within the University of Michigan's International Institute. Her academic base is located in the LSA Building (3246) at 500 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI.

As a sociocultural anthropologist, Dr. Suni specializes in political violence and genocide aftermath, memory politics, cultural heritage in ruined landscapes, and religious/ethnic minority communities in the Middle East. Her flagship project Memory in Ruins: Politics of History and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia analyzes interconnected Kurdish and Armenian community histories through two years of eastern Turkey fieldwork, examining state violence, local memory, and material landscapes. Concurrently, her ethnographic work Imagining the Underground: Violence, Value, and Enchanted Treasure investigates mythical buried Armenian gold as material engagement with genocide history amid ongoing violence.

Her research has been published in leading journals including Comparative Studies in Society and History, Anthropological Quarterly, and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. No information regarding student advising, grants, scientific awards, or laboratory affiliations was provided in the source materials.