My research focuses primarily on politics and society of Eurasia. I look at the various ways in which governance meets or misses stakeholders’ needs, how access to justice is granted or denied to various social groups, and the ways in which human security dynamics play out across the region.
I have published in Caucasus Survey, I have several working papers in circulation, and am currently working on research on the Balkar ethno-national movement in Kabardino-Balkaria. More recently, I have been involved in development research on Eurasian states’ policy responses to COVID-19.
Selected Publications
Avedissian, K. (2020) “New Media and Digital Activism: Comparing Armenia and Chechnya” in The Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus (London: Routledge), 416-427.
Avedissian, K. (2016) “Clerics, weightlifters, and politicians: Ramzan Kadyrov’s Instagram as an official project of Chechen memory and identity production”. Caucasus Survey 4 (1) : 20-43.
Working papers
A Tale of Two Movements: Social Movement Mobilisation in Southern Russia
Krasnodar Cossacks: Vanguard of Russian conservative-patriotic discourse
As If Life Was Starting From Zero: Armenians and 25 Years of State-Building
Sudan: The Impact of Institutions on Violent Conflict
Research contributions
Narratives of Violence in the North Caucasus; The University of Birmingham, UK
Mapping International Norm Diffusion Dynamics: The Case of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Kyrgyzstan; Deakin University, Australia