Bedross Der Matossian
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Bedross Der Matossian is professor of Modern Middle East history and the Hymen Rosenberg Professor in
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at the
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. He is also the vice chair of the Department of History. Der Matossian was born and raised in East Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
, where he began his graduate studies in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He completed his Ph.D. in
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in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at
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in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was a lecturer of Middle East History in the Faculty of History at the
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. For the Spring quarter 2014 he was appointed as the Dumanian Visiting professor in the
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. His areas of interest include ethnic politics in the Middle East, inter-ethnic violence in the Ottoman Empire, Palestinian history, and the history of Armenian Genocide. Der Matossian was the past president of the Society for Armenian Studies. He is also the series editor of "Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World". published by I.B.Tauris and
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. He serves on the Board of Directors of multiple international educational institutions and on the editorial board of multiple journals, the most prominent of which is the flagship journal of the field: International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).


Books

*Der Matossian, Bedross (2023), ed.
Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century
' Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-2510-8 *Der Matossian, Bedross *Der Matossian, Bedross (2020), ed. ''The First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920) on its Centenary: Politics,Gender, and Diplomacy''. The Press at California State University Fresno. . *Der Matossian, Bedross (2019) with Barlow Der Mugrdechian, eds. ''Western Armenian in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Approaches'' , The Press at California State University Fresno. *Der Matossian, Bedross (2018). Sulaiman Mourad, and Naomi Koltun-Fromm, eds. ''Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem''. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY :Routledge. . *Der Matossian, Bedross (2016). ''Hüsrana Uğrayan Devrim: Geç Dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Hürriyet ve Şiddet''. Istanbul: İletişim Publications. *


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Der Matossian, Bedross Armenian studies scholars 1978 births Living people University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty Scholars of Ottoman history Historians of Armenia