ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2025 Sep- Pres. Adjunct Professor of International Relations Theory at the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences.
2024 Fall Term - Adjunct Professor of Political Economy at the American University of Rome (AUR).
2023 Spring Term - Research Fellow at the Centro Vittore Branca, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.
Research Project: "Commercial Diplomacy or the History of Venetian-Armenian Trade Relations."
2021-2022 - Cultrice della Materia in Economic and Political Geography. Tutor and member of the MA Thesis Examination Committee at Link Campus University, Rome.
2018 – 2022 PhD Candidate in Political Science, European and International Studies, Roma Tre University, Italy.
Dissertation: “The Policies of Small States in the Strategies of the Great Powers: The Case of Armenia.”
2019 Sep.-Nov. Visiting Scholar at Columbia European Institute, New York City.
Research Project: “Power and Politics in the South Caucasus 2009-2013.”
2018 Feb.–2019 Dec. Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.
Research Project: “Exogenous Gravity in Regional Geopolitics.”
2018 Oct.–2019 Apr. – Research Associate, Institute of Armenian Studies, University of Southern California.
Research Project: “Understanding Independence: Oral Histories of Armenia 1988-1995.”
July-Nov. 2018 Research Assistant, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (Portugal).
Research Project: “Mobility and migration decision-making in Armenia: The challenges and opportunities for youth.”
2017 Spring Term - Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Research Project: “The Pattern of Change: Armenia's State-building Policy and Reforms in the 1990s.”
2015-2018 Guest Researcher, Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History.
Research Project: “The South Caucasus on the Threshold of Independence.”
ARCHIVAL and LIBRARY RESEARCH
2024 Nov. – Pres. - The American Academy in Rome (IT).
2023 Summer - Matenadaran, The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (ARM).
2023 Spring - Centro Vittore Branca, Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice (IT).
2023 April-May - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (IT).
2023 Spring - Venice State Archive (Archivio di Stato di Venezia, IT).
2021 October - Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center and Archive in Yekaterinburg, Russia (RF).
2021 September - State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow (RF).
2020 December - National Library and Archive of the Republic of Armenia in Yerevan (ARM).
2019 Spring - Butler Library, Columbia University in New York (NY, USA).
2019 - Mardigian Library Archive of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Belmont (USA).
2018-2019 - Archives of the Widener and Lamont Libraries, Harvard University (MA, USA).
2018 Spring - The Armenian Revolutionary Federation in Watertown (MA, USA).
2017 Spring - Butler Library, Columbia University in New York (NY, USA).
2016 Fall - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia (ARM).
PUBLICATIONS
Books and book chapters
Sargsyan, Marine. "Mobility Choices in post-Soviet States: How the EU Attracts Youth in its Shared Neighborhood with Russia." In The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration, edited by David Cairns, 379-88. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64235-8
Cairns, David, and Marine, Sargsyan. Student and Graduate Mobility in Armenia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19613-4
Sargsyan, Marine. “The South Caucasus: East, West; None or Both.” In Europe 2015. The Effect of Perestroyka: Regimes and Risks of Polyphonic Knowledge, edited by Grigory Minenkov, 79-84. Vilnius: European Humanities Institute, 2016.
Articles
Sargsyan, Marine. “Armenia in Public Perceptions: The Case of Armenian Youth.” SLOVO: UCL Press, no. 1 (Summer 2020): 2-26. DOI: 10.14324/111.0954-6839.101.
Sargsyan, Marine and David Cairns. “Home or away? Pathways to employment for the highly qualified in Armenia after the Velvet Revolution.” Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, no. 3 (May 2019): 259-74.
DOI: 10.1177/1103308819861793.
Sargsyan, Marine and Triantafyllidi Christina. “The four-day-war in Nagorno-Karabakh: A year on since the grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights.” Policy Paper, MIT Armenian Society Session, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, April 2016.
Sargsyan, Marine. “Military Engagements of the South Caucasus Countries.” Center for Regional Studies (February 2016): 1-4.
Sargsyan, Marine. “EU-Russia Interdependence and Common Security Challenges.” Center for Regional Studies (March 2016): 1-3.
Cairns, David and Marine Sargsyan. “Erasmus+ in the Eastern Partnership: Exploring International student mobility between Armenia and the European Union.” CIES-UIL, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon. CIES. e-Working Paper no. 203 (2016): 1-15.
Sargsyan, Marine. “Education abroad: Does it Contribute to the Creation of a Secure and Prosperous Armenian Society? Whose Labor Market is Ensured to be Facilitated with Qualified Specialists?” CRRC-Armenia (Spring 2012): 1-20.
Reviews
Sargsyan, Marine. “Professional position positioned. The interwoven experience of being a young adult and new at work analysed from a relational perspective of age.” YOUNG. Sage Publications. Article Review (May 2023).
