Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature
Simon Payaslian is the Holder of the Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at Boston University. He is the author of a number of books, articles, and book chapters, including The Political Economy of Human Rights in Armenia: Authoritarianism and Democracy in a Former Soviet Republic (I.B. Tauris, 2011); United States Policy toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); and “Imagining Armenia,” in The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present, edited by Allon Gal, Athena S. Leoussi, and Anthony D. Smith (Brill, 2010). He is currently completing a book tentatively titled Diasporization and the Politics of Recognition.
Courses in Holocaust and Genocide Studies:
- History of International Human Rights (HI 346 / IR 348 / HI 746)
- History of Genocide (HI 384)
- The Armenian Genocide (HI 380 / HI 780)
- Prevention of Genocide (HI 543 / IR 437)