David Gaunt (born 1944 in London) is a historian and professor at

Södertörn University Södertörn University ( sv, Södertörns högskola, abbreviated as SH) is a public university college ( sv, högskola) located in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. In 20 ...

's Centre for Baltic and East European Studies and

Member of Academia Europaea Membership of the Academia Europaea (MAE) is an award conferred by the Academia Europaea to individuals that have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence". Membership is by invitation only by existing MAE only and judged during a peer review se ...

. Gaunt's book about the

Assyrian genocide The Sayfo or the Seyfo (; see below), also known as the Assyrian genocide, was the mass slaughter and deportation of Assyrian / Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish t ...

, ''Massacres, Resistance, Protectors'', was described as "the most important book that has been published in recent years".

Works

* * *"The property and kin relationships of retired farmers in northern and central Europe" in ''Family forms in historic Europe'', 1983 * * * * * * *"The Ottoman Treatment of the Assyrians" In: A question of genocide : Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire / dRonald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Goçek, Norman M. Naimark, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 244-259 * *"Failed Identity and the Assyrian Genocide" In: Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Borderlands / dOmer Bartov & Eric D. Weitz, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2013, 1, p. 317-333 *"The Culture of Inter-Religious Violence in Anatolian Borderlands in the Late Ottoman Empire" In: Gewaltgemeinschaften: Von der Spätantike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert / dWinfried Speitkamp, Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2013, 1, p. 251-274 * * * *"The Long Assyrian Genocide" in Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State 2020

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaunt, David 1944 births Living people Södertörn University faculty Members of Academia Europaea 20th-century Swedish historians People from London British emigrants to Sweden Uppsala University alumni 21st-century Swedish historians