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.