Sossie Kasbarian served as the 2026 Dumanian Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at the University of Chicago. She is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, having been Senior Lecturer in International Politics from 2017-2025. She earned her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and has also taught at SOAS, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), the University of Lancaster (England), and the American University in Cairo.
Sossie is co-editor (with Talar Chahinian and Tsolin Nalbantian) of The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power: Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury 2023); co-editor (with Anthony Gorman) of Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualising Community (Edinburgh University Press 2015) and author of journal articles and book chapters spanning contemporary Middle East politics and society; the Armenian diaspora; and diaspora, refugee and migration studies.
Sossie is co-editor (with Talar Chahinian and Jo Laycock) of Diaspora – a journal of transnational studies.