Broadly speaking, I am interested in questions of media and mediation, music and post-socialism with a regional focus on Armenia and the global Armenian diaspora. My doctoral thesis was a multi-sited ethnography of the media circuits connecting the Armenian diaspora of Los Angeles to post-Soviet transition focusing on the politics of recognition and redistribution. I have also been engaged in the study of folk dance performances in protests and post-socialist debates on music and taste in Armenia.

More recently, I began conducting a research project titled Patching Publics: A Digital Ethnography of Eurorack Modular Synthesis which is a study of the production and circulation of boutique synthesizer modules. This project looks at the dematerialisation and rematerialisation of music hardware in a post-digital era in which the analog and the digital are increasingly interwoven. 

With Annastiina Kallius (University of Helsinki) I have conducted a study of Hungarian liberalism through the lens of the internet memes that parody the country's illiberal regime. We recently published our findings in the article 'The Meme Radar: Locating Liberalism in Illiberal Hungary' which came out in Cultural Anthropology in November 2022 and can be read here.