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Khatchig Mouradian
Occupation
Adjunct Professor
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ABOUT
Khatchig Mouradian is the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Previously, he served as the Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor at CSU Fresno (Fall 2016 Semester). In 2015-2016, Mouradian was a visiting assistant professor at the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, where he also served as the program coordinator of the Armenian Genocide Program at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR). Since 2014, Mouradian has taught courses on imperialism, mass violence, human rights, concentration camps, urban space and conflict in the Middle East, and collective memory in the History and Sociology departments at Rutgers and at Worcester State University. Mouradian holds a PhD in History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. In 2014, he received the Calouste Gulbenkian Armenian Studies research fellowship to study the Armenian community in China. Mouradian is the author of several articles and book chapters, including, most recently, “The Meskeneh Concentration Camp, 1915-1917: A case study of power, collaboration, and humanitarian resistance during the Armenian Genocide,” Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies, Vol. 24 (2015); and “Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916,” Études arméniennes contemporaines, Vol. 7 (2016). Mouradian is the recipient of the first Hrant Dink Spirit of Freedom and Justice Medal of the Organization of Istanbul Armenians (2014).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Armenian Studies
Turkish Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Armenia
All Middle East
Turkey
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Armenian (advanced)
Turkish (fluent)
French (fluent)
English (advanced)
Abstracts
Not Like a Lamb to the Slaughter: Humanitarian Resistance during the Armenian Genocide