Joanne Laycock

Joanne Laycock is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at The University of Manchester, specializing in transnational Armenian diaspora history and Soviet studies. Her career includes a PhD from Manchester (2005), a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, and roles at Sheffield Hallam University. She researches refugee displacement, humanitarianism, and Soviet-era migration, with a focus on the South Caucasus. Laycock has authored Imagining Armenia (2009) and co-edited Aid to Armenia (2020). Her current project examines 1914-1928 South Caucasus displacement funded by British Academy and Rockefeller grants. She serves on the editorial boards of Caucasus Studies and the Peripheral Histories? blog.

Education:

• Bachelor's in History & Archaeology (Durham University)
• MA in Modern European History (University of Manchester)
• PhD in History (University of Manchester)

Research Interests:

• Forced migration and diasporic identity
• Soviet humanitarian responses
• Armenian repatriation post-WWII
• Transnational borderland histories

Grants & Awards:

• British Academy Small Grant (Current project)
• Rockefeller Grant-in-Aid
• Manoogian-Simone Postdoctoral Fellowship

Laycock advises postgraduate students in refugee history, South Caucasus studies, and Russian imperial/Soviet history. She contributes to the John Rylands Research Institute and collaborates internationally on peripheral histories projects.