Semerdjian receives prestigious book award
The Institute for the Study of Genocide (ISG) has awarded the 2025 Raphael Lemkin Book Award to Elyse Semerdjian, the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies, for her work, “Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide.”
ISG’s Lemkin Award honors Raphael Lemkin, the originator of the concept of genocide and first exponent of a United Nations Genocide Convention. The biennial award recognizes the best non-fiction book published in English or translated into English that focuses on the causes, prevention, response, or consequences of genocide and mass atrocities.