{"id":25,"date":"2026-01-21T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:44:45","slug":"ph-d-alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/people\/ph-d-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns sidebar is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45rem\">\n<p>As Holocaust museums and memorials proliferate, Center alumni are poised to assume leadership positions. Indeed they are doing just that as they continue to embrace opportunities for further research and public service. As the only program to provide doctoral education in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies, the Center is proud to serve as a training ground for future curators, education directors, and historians who will advance the field and enhance the education of teachers, students, and the public. Their activities, reported below, attest to the value of the Center\u2019s enterprise of rigorous doctoral education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><nav class=\"is-vertical wp-block-navigation is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-2c14e10a wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"People submenu\"><ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container  is-vertical wp-block-navigation\"><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/people\/faculty-and-staff\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Faculty and staff<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/people\/graduate-students\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Graduate students<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/people\/ph-d-alumni\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Ph.D. alumni<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/people\/undergraduate-alumni\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Undergraduate alumni<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group section is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-featured-alumni\">Featured alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Graduate-Students-768x768-1.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Graduate-Students-768x768-1.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Graduate-Students-768x768-1-300x300.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Graduate-Students-768x768-1-150x150.avif 150w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Graduate-Students-768x768-1-200x200.avif 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p><strong>Upper Left:<\/strong>&nbsp;Gabrielle Hauth \u201922 and Thomas K\u00fchne &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Upper Middle:&nbsp;<\/strong>Tiberiu Galis<strong>&nbsp;\u2018<\/strong>15<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Upper Right:&nbsp;<\/strong>Elizabeth Anthony \u201916 and Jeffrey Koerber \u201915<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lower Left:<\/strong>&nbsp;Alexis Herr \u201914 &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Lower Middle:<\/strong>&nbsp;Samantha Lakin \u201921 with family&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Bottom Left:<\/strong>&nbsp;Michael Geheran \u201916, Thomas K\u00fchne and Joanna Sliwa \u201916<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Anna Aleksanyan, Ph.D. &#8217;23<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201c&nbsp;Gendered Aspects of the Armenian Genocide in the Experiences of its Victimized Females (1914-1918)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong>Post-doctoral Fellow, Promise Institute, University of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Kim Allar, Ph.D. &#8217;19<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cEducation in Violence: Training Guards in Nazi Concentration Camps and Killing Centers\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong>Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Cristina Andriani, Ph.D. &#8217;13<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cSwords or Plowshares? Holocaust Collective Memories and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br>Psychotherapist, Private Practice, North Grafton.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Elizabeth Anthony, Ph.D. &#8217;16<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cReturn Home: Holocaust Survivors Reestablishing Lives in Postwar Vienna\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:&nbsp;<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/research\/about-the-mandel-center\/our-staff-and-scholars\/staff\/elizabeth-anthony\">Director, Visiting Scholar Programs,&nbsp; Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><br><em>The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust&nbsp;<\/em>(Wayne State University Press, 2021)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Maayan Armelin, Ph.D. &#8217;23<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cLeadership styles and Social Relations in the SS-Einsatzgruppen\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bar-ilan Post Doctorate Fellowship- 2023<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Sara Elise Brown, Ph.D. &#8217;16<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cGender and Agency: Women Rescuers and Perpetrators During the Genocide in Rwanda\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/news\/american-jewish-committee-opens-san-diego-office-names-sara-e-brown-director\">Director, American Jewish Committee (AJC), San Diego<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><br><em>Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and as Perpetrators&nbsp;<\/em>(Routledge, 2017)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Beth Cohen, Ph.D. &#8217;03<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cCase Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America, 1946-1954\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/humanities\/jewish-studies\/affiliated-faculty\">Lecturer, History and Jewish Studies, California State University, Northridge, CA.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><br><em>Child Survivors of the Holocaust: The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience&nbsp;<\/em>(Rutgers University Press, 2018)<em><br><\/em><em>Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America&nbsp;<\/em>(Rutgers University Press, 2007)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Sarah Cushman, Ph.D. &#8217;10<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Women of Birkenau: The Women\u2019s Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hef.northwestern.edu\/\">Director, Holocaust Educational Foundation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Asya Darbinyan, Ph.D. &#8217;19<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cRussian Humanitarian Response to Armenian Genocide\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chhange.org\/about\/staff\/dr-asya-darbinyan\">Executive Director of Chhange, the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights &amp; Genocide Education<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Daan de Leeuw, Ph.D.&#8217;25<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Geography of Slave Labor: Dutch Jews and the Third Reich (1942-1945)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit \u2013 Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Tiberiu Galis, Ph.D. &#8217;15<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cTransitional Justice and Transition to a New Regime: Making Sense of Uncertain Times\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.auschwitzinstitute.org\/\">Executive Director, Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><br><em>Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention<\/em>&nbsp;(Cambridge University Press, 2015)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Michael Geheran, Ph.D &#8217;16<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cBetrayed Comradeship: German-Jewish WWI Veterans under Hitler\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westpoint.edu\/history\/profile\/michael_geheran\">Deputy Director, Center for Holocaust &amp; Genocide Studies, United States Military Academy at West Point, New York<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication:<br><\/strong><em>Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler<\/em>&nbsp;(Cornell University Press, 2020)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Adara Goldberg, Ph.D. &#8217;12<\/summary>\n<p>\u201cWe<em>&nbsp;Were Called Greenies: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kean.edu\/directory\/adara-goldberg\">Director of the Holocaust Resource Center and Diversity Council on Global Education and Citizenship, Kean University, Union, NJ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><br><em>Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955&nbsp;<\/em>(University of Manitoba Press, 2015)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Simon Goldberg, Ph.D. &#8217;24<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cWriting and Rewriting the History of the Kovno Ghetto\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br>Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBetween Poetry and History: Real-Time Writings on Holocaust Trains,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Journal of Holocaust Research<\/em>&nbsp;32, no. 1 (2018): 57-73.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Hana Green, Ph.D. &#8217;25<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cWhatever happens, never reveal to anyone that you are Jewish\u2019: Identity \u2018Passing\u2019 as a Jewish Response to Persecution during the Nazi Period, 1933-1945\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong>Rose Mibab and Carl Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust Studies in the&nbsp;Zucker\/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Sandra Grudi\u0107, Ph.D. &#8217;25<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cNeighborliness and Neighborhood Violence in Bosanski Novi\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu\/about\/people\/sandra-grudic\">Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Gabrielle Hauth, Ph.D. &#8217;22<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cIntimacy in Ravensbr\u00fcck.&nbsp; Sex, Violence, and Survival in a Nazi Concentration Camp\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong>Producer,&nbsp;<em>Der Spiegel<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Naama Haviv, MA &#8217;06<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Pre-Conditions for \u2018Ethnic Cleansing\u2019 through \u2018Population Transfer\u2019: The Case of Israel-Palestine\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/mazon.org\/staff\/naama-haviv\/\">Vice President of Community Engagement, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, Los Angeles, CA.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Alexis Herr, Ph.D. &#8217;14<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cFossoli di Carpi: The History and Memory of the Holocaust in Italy\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usfca.edu\/faculty\/alexis-herr\">Lecturer, San Francisco State University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><br><em>Darfur Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide&nbsp;<\/em>(ABC-CLIO, 2020)<em><br>Rwandan Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide&nbsp;<\/em>(ABC-CLIO, 2018)<em><br>The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi, 1942-1952&nbsp;<\/em>(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Stefan Cristian Ionescu, Ph.D. &#8217;13<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cRomanianization: Greed, Opportunism, Corruption, and Resistance in World War II Bucharest\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/history.northwestern.edu\/people\/faculty\/lecturers-and-visiting-faculty\/stefan-ionescu.html\">Theodore Zev and Alice R. Weiss \u2013 Holocaust Educational Foundation Visiting Associate Professor in Holocaust Studies, Department of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><br><em>Jewish Resistance to \u2018Romanianization\u2019, 1940-1944&nbsp;<\/em>(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Emil Ditlev Kjerte, Ph.D. &#8217;25<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cUsta\u0161a Guards at Jasenovac \u2014 Moral Transformation, Social Interaction, and Gender Norms\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Jeffrey Koerber, Ph.D. &#8217;15<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cBorderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published by: Syracuse University- October 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/our-faculty\/jeffrey-koerber\">Assistant Professor of Holocaust History, Chapman University, Chapman, CA.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Robin Krause, MA &#8217;12<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cGerman Opposition to Genocide: The Case of the Herero, 1904-1907\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br>Social Studies Teacher, South Oldham High School, Crestwood, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Umit Kurt, Ph.D. &#8217;16<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Making of the Aintab Elite: Social Support, Local Incentives and Provincial Motives Behind the Armenian Genocide (1890s-1920s)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong>Professor of History, University of New Castle, New South Wales, Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><br><em>(with Taner Ak\u00e7am) The Spirit of the Laws: Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide&nbsp;<\/em>(Berghahn Books, 2017)<em><br><\/em><em>The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province&nbsp;<\/em>(Harvard University Press, 2021)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Samantha Lakin, Ph.D. &#8217;21<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cKwibuka: Divergent Memories and Quests for Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<br><\/strong>Curriculum Analyst, Organizational Learning Unit, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/9781009110693%23CN-bp-7\/type\/BOOK_PART#CN-bp-7\">\u201cMemory and Victimhood in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Legal, Political, and Social Realities\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath&nbsp;<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(with Paul Bartrop)<em>&nbsp;Heroines of Vichy France: Rescuing French Jews during the Holocaust&nbsp;<\/em>(Praeger, 2019)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Beth Lilach, MA &#8217;12<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cAftermath of Liberation: Jewish Life in Displaced Persons Camps, Germany 1945-1957\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br>Executive Director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.naz.edu\/konar-center\/\">Konar Center for Tolerance and Jewish Studies&nbsp;<\/a>at Nazareth College, NY<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Jody Russell Manning ABD<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cLiving in the Shadow of Auschwitz and Dachau: Memorial, Community, Symbolism, and the Palimpsest of Memory\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/chss.rowan.edu\/centers\/RCHGS\/faculty%20and%20staff.html\">Lecturer and Director of Programming, Center for the Study of Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Rowan University<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Khachador Mouradian, Ph.D. &#8217;16<\/summary>\n<p><em>\u201cGenocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1917\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Position:<\/strong><br>Lecturer, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department and Director, Armenian Studies Program, Columbia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><br><em>Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916\u2033, \u00c9tudes arm\u00e9niennes contemporaines, Vol. 7&nbsp;<\/em>(2016)<br><em>The 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