Armenian Weekly April 2012 Magazine

Contributors
Seda Altug teaches at Bosphorus University. Her dissertation
is entitled “Sectarianism in the Syrian
Jazira: Community, land, and violence in the memories
of World War I and the French mandate
(1915–39).” Her research interests are state-society
relations, and minority issues in colonial and post-colonial Syria.
Matthias Bjørnlund is a Danish archival historian
specializing in the Armenian Genocide. He currently
teaches at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad
(DIS) in Copenhagen.
Chris Bohjalian is the author of 15
books, including the New York Times bestsellers The
Night Strangers, Secrets of Eden, Skeletons at the Feast,
The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law
of Similars, and Midwives. His work has been translated
into over 25 languages and 3 times have become movies.
Bohjalian’s novel of the Armenian Genocide, The Sandcastle Girls,
arrives on July 17.
Ayda Erbal is writing her dissertation in the department
of politics at New York University. Her work
focuses on the politics of changing historiographies
in Turkey and Israel. She is interested in democratic
theory, democratic deliberation, the politics of
“post-nationalist” historiographies in transitional settings, and the
politics of apology. She is a published short-story writer and
worked as a columnist for the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos
from 2000–03.
Burcu Gürsel grew up in Istanbul and received her
degrees from the University of Chicago and the
University of Pennsylvania (comparative literature).
In 2011 she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Forum
Transregionale Studien, Berlin.
Suzanne Khardalian is a documentary filmmaker
based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her films include “Back
to Ararat,” “I Hate Dogs,” and “Grandma’s Tattoos.”
She contributes regularly to Armenian-language
newspapers.
Marc A. Mamigonian is the director of academic
affairs of the National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR). He is the editor of
“Rethinking Armenian Studies” (2003) and “The
Armenians of New England” (2004) and the author or
co-author of several scholarly articles on the writings of James Joyce.
Harut Sassounian is the publisher of the California
Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif.
He has a master’s degree in international affairs from
Columbia University and an MBA from Pepperdine.
Talin Suciyan is an Armenian from Istanbul, currently
based in Munich pursuing her Ph.D. She works
as a teaching fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University,
in the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
Henry C. Theriault earned his Ph.D. in
philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. He
is currently professor in the philosophy department
at Worcester State University. Since 2007, he has served
as co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal
“Genocide Studies and Prevention.”
Uğur Ümit Üngör is assistant professor at the
department of history of Utrecht University and at
the Institute for War and Genocide Studies in
Amsterdam. His recent publications include
Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure
of Armenian Property (Continuum, 2011) and The Making of
Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913–1950
(Oxford University Press, 2011).
Joyce Van Dyke is a playwright and descendant of
Armenian Genocide survivors. She is the author of
“Deported / a dream play” and “A Girl’s War,” a story
of love and war set in Karabagh which has received
multiple productions and awards and was published
in Contemporary Armenian American Drama (2004). Her play,
“The Oil Thief,” won Boston’s Elliot Norton Award for best new
play in 2009.
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