January 27, 2022
Part (2)
For this week’s Armenian Assembly of America Radio Hour, host Mihran Toumajan was honored to interview Ms. Inna Mirzoyan, a Ph.D. candidate studying Sociology at Michigan State University. Inna is a first-generation Armenian American.
In the wake of the late 1980s / early 1990s pogroms targeting Armenians in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad, and Baku in Azerbaijan, Inna’s family was forced to flee Baku and settle in Ukraine where she was born. In the late 1990s, tens of thousands of Armenian refugees forcibly expelled from Azerbaijan, including the Mirzoyan family, settled in the United States. Specifically, Inna’s family settled in the small yet multicultural City of Hamtramck in 1997, a city wholly surrounded by the relatively larger metropolis of Detroit. Inna attended the AGBU Alex & Marie Manoogian School, an award-winning charter school based in Southfield, Michigan.
Upon graduating from grade school, she matriculated at Michigan State University’s James Madison College where she earned a B.A. in Social Relations & Policy in 2014, as well as an M.A. in Sociology in 2019. Inna Mirzoyan is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation research, which explores the transnational experiences of the Armenian American community in Glendale, California, and in neighboring communities, such as North Hollywood and Pasadena. Before beginning her fieldwork in greater Los Angeles, Inna consummated a U.S. Fulbright Grant in Yerevan, Armenia.
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