Andrew Gorvetzian, 2026-2027 PhD Fellow

April 4, 2026

The LAII offers competitive PhD Fellowship awards to support doctoral students conducting dissertation research and writing related to Latin America and Iberia.  

Meet PhD fellow, Andrew Gorvetzian. Andrew is a PhD student in the Anthropology department. His project is titled: Ni de aquí, ni de allá/Au buni, amuru nuni/Me for you and you for me: Analyzing the Contours of a Transnational Garifuna Nation through Language Revitalization. Andrew expresses that his research “was inspired by the resilience of my friends and collaborators within the Garifuna communities with whom I’ve been working for many years. When an unexpectred obstacle arose that prevented me from returning to my original field site, I relied on the ingenuity of my Garifuna friends who channel their own historical memory of persistence in pursuit of linguistic and cultural revitalization across the Americas. Through these relationships I was able to carve out a new research project focusing on how multiple language revitalization initiatives are connected through digital and kinship networks that transcend borders. This fellowship will support me in analyzing the data I’ve been gathering from my fieldwork and return that knowledge to the communities I worked with.”