Educational Materials
The Rerooted Archive is an engaging and informative resource for teachers and students from middle school to the graduate level. Our oral history interviews cover important themes such as human rights, diaspora, identity, refugee experiences, language preservation, minorities in the Middle East, displacement, and more.
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Lesson Plans for Teachers and Professors
Explore our set of prepared lesson plans to seamlessly bring Rerooted’s collections to your classroom.
Resources for Researchers and Students
Our archives are a rich primary source across a variety of research topics. If you are conducting research on topics related to any of our testimony collections, please contact us to assist with sharing materials and assisting you. We conduct internal qualitative analysis coding internally on our interviews and may even be able to share those materials with you upon mutual agreement. We are sharing here a set of published research using our collections.
Columbia University Masters’ Thesis by Anoush Baghdassarian
Assessing Attitudes of Syrian-Armenian Refugees toward Redress and Justice in Post-Conflict Syria
University of Côte d'Azur Masters’ Thesis by Emma Eskijian (in French)
The Exodus of Armenians from Syria to the Republic of Armenia caused by the Syrian Civil War
The Graduate Institute Geneva Masters’ Thesis by Adina Kristin Klein
Syrian-Armenians in The Republic of Armenia: A Diaspora of Diaspora
Inspiration for Artists
Our testimonies and photographs can also serve as inspiration for the basis of artistic works.
Rerooted, 2022
Original Composition by Joseph Bohigian
Video by Kevork Mourad
Performed by the Argus Quartet
Rerooted traces the journeys of over a dozen Armenian families through their recorded testimonies, from their expulsion from the homeland during the genocide in the early 20th century through the rebuilding of their lives and community in Syria, their displacement during the civil war in their adopted home, and their resettlement in the Republic of Armenia. Armenians have lived in Syria for centuries and it has been home to one of the major centers of the Armenian diaspora since the genocide. The war-time destruction of this community has led many of its members to repatriate to Armenia, though it is an Armenia different in geography, language, and culture than the one their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents fled a century earlier. Their stories reflect the resilience of a community defined by exile and the realities of a displacement that leads back to the homeland. You can learn more about the piece here: josephbohigian.com/rerooted.
Rerooted was supported by New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund in 2021.