Michelle Tusan

Michelle Tusan is professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she teaches and writes about human rights and humanitarianism. She is the author of Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East (University of California, 2012) as well as “‘Crimes Against Humanity’: Human Rights, the British Empire and the Origins of the Response to the Armenian Genocide,” in the American Historical Review. Her latest book, The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill (London, 2017), is now published.

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