Élodie Gavrilof is the next to join YCIE as part of our Research Fellowship Program for the 2025-2026 academic year! ⭐️

She holds a PhD in contemporary history (EHESS, 2024), recognised with a prize for best thesis in history of education by the French Ministry of Education’s History Committee (CHIMEN, 2026).

Her research now centres on the long-term construction of Turkish and Azerbaijani otherness in Armenian national narratives, examining how mechanisms of dehumanisation are rooted in the violent history of the 19th and 20th century. Drawing on Armenian archives, satirical press, and cartographic sources, it combines microhistorical analysis with Border Studies approaches. Part of this project also engages with online memory narratives surrounding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, mobilising OSINT methodologies to analyse the circulation and reappropriation of historical narratives on social media.