Lori Pirinjian is a Ph.D. student in the Armenian Studies Program in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Lori also holds a Master’s degree from San Francisco State University in Cultural Anthropology as well as Bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of San Francisco. In her research at UCLA, which she is pursuing under the supervision of Professor Peter Cowe, Lori is studying gender expressions in modern Armenia and their narratives of national belonging and identity.