Anna Aleksanyan is an expert on the Armenian Genocide, which she currently writes about as a Ph.D. candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her dissertation explores gendered aspects of the Armenian Genocide in the experiences of its victimized females. Before starting her Ph.D., Anna worked at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, in Yerevan, Armenia, as a scientific researcher for seven years.

 

Some Highlights: 

Origins of the Armenian Genocide

Young Turk Revolution

1909 Massacres

Armenian women, orphans, and prisoners

Sources for genocide research

Women after World War I

The Ottoman Empire

Forced Marriages

April 24, 1915

"The luckiest ones were killed"

"Men were mostly killed, women were abducted."

Resistance and remembrance of the genocide

Suggestion: 

Anna: Visit Armenia! Learn about the genocide.

Steven: Armenian String Cheese

Armenian Genocide Memorial, Yerevan

 

 

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