Andrew Gorvetzian

PhD
Anthropology

Andrew Gorvetzian is a PhD candidate in sociocultural and linguistic anthropology at the University of New Mexico. His dissertation focuses on digital language revitalization as a means of diasporic nation building among the Garifuna people, a Black and Indigenous community in Central America and the United States. With fieldwork spanning Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, St. Vincent and the United States, his research is grounded in collaborative methods that serve applied and scholarly goals. Gorvetzian is also co-author of Surviving the Americas: Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City (University of Cincinnati Press, 2021), in addition to numerous articles and chapters about international higher education, constructive engagement of intercultural conflict, and interdisciplinary approaches to public health, which he has presented at venues ranging from the American Anthropological Association to the United Nations. As an educator, he has taught numerous courses at the university level and secondary schools in New Mexico and Nicaragua.