Simon Payaslian is an

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historian, author, editor, who has held the Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at

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since 2007. From 2002 to 2007 he held the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...

Studies and Modern

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. Payaslian is the nephew of

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Zareh I Zareh I Payaslian ( hy, Զարեհ Ա. Փայասլեան) (14 February 1915, Marash – 18 February 1963, Beirut, Lebanon) was Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 1956 to 1963. Life Zareh I was born in 1915, in Marash, O ...

. His first doctoral degree was earned in Political Science from

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, after which he went on to earn a second doctoral degree in Armenian history at the

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under

Richard Hovannisian Richard Gable Hovannisian ( hy, Ռիչարդ Հովհաննիսյան, born November 9, 1932) is an Armenian American historian and professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known mainly for his four-volume history o ...

, where his dissertation was titled ''United States Policy toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide.''

Works

*The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present (2007) *United States Policy toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide (2005) *The Armenian Genocide, 1915–1923: A Handbook for Students and Teachers (2001) *International Political Economy: Conflict and Cooperation in the Global System (co-authored with Frederic S. Pearson) (1999; Chinese translation, Peking University Press, 2006) *U.S. Foreign Economic and Military Aid: The Reagan and Bush Administrations (1996). *He has co-edited (with Richard G. Hovannisian) two volumes, Armenian Constantinople (2010) and Armenian Cilicia (2008).

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Syrian emigrants to the United States 21st-century American historians People from Aleppo Syrian people of Armenian descent Clark University faculty Boston University faculty Wayne State University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni American male non-fiction writers Ethnic Armenian historians {{US-historian-stub