Lilit Ghazaryan is a linguistic anthropologist, specializing in language socialization, peer socialization, language policies and practices in preschool educational institutions in post-Soviet Armenia.
Lilit is currently working on her dissertation about the language policies and practices in kindergartens in Yerevan, analyzing language correction as a tool of socializing children into the larger existing purist ideologies in the country, the address terms used in the educational contexts, and the overall linguistic mosaic in modern day Yerevan kindergartens in light of the recent geopolitical developments in the region.
Lilit is also a junior researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, NAS RA, in the department of Cultural Anthropology.
Education
PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles,
Department of Anthropology, Specialization: Linguistic Anthropology
MA in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
MA Thesis: “Speak Beautifully: Language Policies and Practices in Public Kindergartens in Armenia”
BA in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Major: Linguistics and Anthropology, Minor: Russian Language
Magna Cum Laude / College Honors / Dean’s Honor
BA Thesis: “Metalinguistic Awareness among Armenian-English Bilingual Children”
Office location
17W PAB
Courses currently taught
- FS1: Freshman Seminar 1
- FS2: Freshman Seminar 2