Khatchig Mouradian: Unarmed Resistance during the Armenian Genocide

Khatchig Mouradian presents 'The Very Limit of our Endurance': Unarmed Resistance during the Armenian Genocide as the keynote speaker for the Dr. Harold Abel Endowed Lecture Series in the Study of Dictatorship, Democracy and Genocide. 

Mouradian is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, and mass violence. He is a Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University and the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist in the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. He serves as Co-Principal Investigator on two interdisciplinary research initiatives: the Connectivity and Individuality in Textual Traditions project, funded by a Humanities and AI Virtual Institute grant from Schmidt Sciences; and the Armenian Genocide Denial project at New York University’s Global Institute for Advanced Study. Since 2024, he has also taught in the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Mouradian is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (2021). The book received the 2022 Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies and the 2021 Syrian Studies Association honorable mention.

Mouradian is the co-editor of After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience (2023) and The I.B.Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy (2025). He has published articles and book chapters on ethnic cleansing in the 19th century, concentration camps, unarmed resistance, the aftermath of mass violence, midwifery in the Middle East, and approaches to teaching history. He also serves as the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review.

At Columbia University, Mouradian is also Associate Faculty at the Harriman Institute for the study of Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR).