Marianna Hovhannisyan is an art historian and curator. She works at the intersection of postcolonial and decolonial archival and museum studies with the focus on folk studies, theories of art, artifacts, metadata, and Armenian/West Asian studies. In 2022–23, she was the postdoctoral fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University. Her writings appear in the Stedelijk Studies, Displaced Archives series, and InterActions. As the first EU-funded Hrant Dink Foundation Fellow, she conducted original research in the American Board Archives (Turkey). This resulted in her curatorial exhibition “Empty Fields” (exhibition design concept: Fareed Armaly, 2016, SALT, Istanbul), which uncovered a museum collection dispersed due to the 1915 Armenian Genocide.