Hello, I am Noor. Thank you for visiting my website!
I am a social economist interested in family formation, reproductive decision-making, and social reproduction.
Presently, I am a student at University College London/Corvinus University of Budapest's MSc program in Economy, State, and Society, housed in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. My main project at the moment is writing my dissertation on how family policies and economic inequalities are influencing families’ labor market interactions in Hungary.
Before beginning this program, I lectured in the American University of Armenia’s Gender Studies minor, teaching a course called Gender Perspectives. This class was an introduction to gender studies and covered political and economic case studies from the region.
My second primary strand of research is on queer kinship in social reproduction research. I have written on how social media communities are being used as a facilitation tool for the formation of in-person communities by queer youth in Yerevan. The resulting papers from these projects will be published in 2026.
My previous degrees are from The New School in New York. I completed my BA in Global Studies and Economics and MA in Economics there. While at The New School, I focused on feminist economics and transition economies. I am interested in how empires influence gender relations and women’s rights.
My broad research interests are on gender and social reproduction through a lens of labor markets and economic inequality. I am also interested in feminist and queer political economy more broadly, and small-scale economic development.
I have worked as an Armenian-English translator since 2018.
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