Jo Laycock

My first monograph, Imagining Armenia, examined British representations of Armenia and the ways in which they shaped responses to the Armenian genocide and refugee crisis which followed in its wake. I have also written on the repatriation of diaspora Armenians to the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Second World War. My current research addresses the history of Armenia and the Caucasus in transnational context, focusing on the aftermaths of crisis and upheaval at the start and end of the Soviet period. In particular, I am interested in refugee relief and the construction of the Soviet state in Armenia in the post-WWI period and international response to the Armenian earthquake in 1988. More broadly, I am interested in the place of the Soviet Union in emerging transnational histories of humanitarianism.

Histories of modern Armenia and the South Caucasus
Refugees, population displacement and diasporas
Transnational histories of humanitarianism
Histories of conflict, genocide and their aftermaths

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