They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: Explaining the Armenian Genocide One Hundred Years Later
Ronald Grigor Suny is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan where he also founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program. A renowned researcher and prolific author, Suny's intellectual interests center on the non-Russian nationalities of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, particularly those of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia). He is the author of many books, including most recently They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide (2015).
Suny's research and scholarship aim is to consider the history of imperial Russia and the USSR without leaving out the non-Russian half of the population; to see how multi-nationality, processes of imperialism and nation-making shaped the state and society of this vast area and nation. These investigations have in turn led to work on the nature of empires and nations, studies in the historiography and methodology of studying social and cultural history, and a commitment to bridging the often-unbridgeable gap between the traditional concerns of historians and the methods and models of other social scientists.
Suny has served as chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies and sits on many editorial boards including Slavic Review, International Labor and Working-Class History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, The Armenian Review, etc., and is a contributing editor to Armenian International Magazine. He is a frequent guest on broadcast news programs and has written for many national and international newspapers and journals.
Professor Suny's Athenaeum talk is sponsored by the Center of Human Rights.
1 окт 2024
