Bilgin Ayata is completing her Ph.D. at the department of political science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Her research interests include the politics of displacement, trans-nationalism, social movements, and migration. Her dissertation examines the displacement of Kurds in Turkey and Europe. She currently lives in Berlin.

Seyhan Bayraktar holds a research position at the department of politics and public administration at the University of Konstanzin Germany, where she has taught masters-level courses in comparative genocide studies and European integration. She recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis, titled “Politics of Denial: The development of the discourse about the murder of the Ottoman Armenians of 1915 in Turkey between foreign political pressure and nationalistic defense mechanisms.” Her research focuses on memory and identity politics, nationalism, political communication, discourse analysis, cultural aspects of political integration, and Turkey’s minority politics. Her current research focuses on migration politics and the role of integration and assimilation in the current migration discourse in Germany.

Matthias Bjornlund was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1967. He is a Danish historian and freelance researcher specializing in the Armenian Genocide and related issues, particularly as documented in Danish archival sources. He is currently working on a book about Denmark and the “Armenian Question” from 1900–40.He has co-authored articles on the concept of genocide and on aspects of the Rwandan genocide.

Ayse Gunaysu is a professional translator, human rights advocate, former communist, and feminist. She has been a member of the Committee Against Racism and Discrimination of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (Istanbul branch) since 1995, and was a columnist in a pro-Kurdish daily from 2005–07.

Ayse Hur was born in Artvin, Turkey, in1956. She lived with her parents in Urfa, Nazilli (Aydin), and Edirne, then moved to Istanbul. Having completed her double-major in 1992 from the departments of history and international relations at Bogazici University, she joined the History Foundation of Turkey and worked on such projects as the Istanbul Encyclopedia. In 2004, she completed her master’s thesis on “The European Union’s Policies of Reconciling with History and the Armenian Question” at the Ataturk Institute of Bogazici University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree at the same institution. She is a member of the editorial board of Social History, and writes historical and political articles in various newspapers and journals, including Taraf, Radikal, Birikim, and Agos.

Hilmar Kaiser received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence. He specializes in Ottoman social and economic history as well as the Armenian Genocide. He has done research in more than 60 archives worldwide, including the Ottoman Archives in Istanbul. His published works — monographs, edited volumes, and articles—include “Imperialism, Racism, and Development Theories: The Construction of a Dominant Paradigm on Ottoman Armenians,” “At the Crossroads of Der Zor: Death Survival and Humanitarian Resistance in Aleppo,1915–1917,” “The Baghdad Railway and the Armenian Genocide,1915–1916:A Case Study in German Resistance and Complicity,” “1915–1916 Ermeni Soykirimi Sirasinda Ermeni Mulkleri, Osmanli Hukuku ve Milliyet Politikalari,” “Le génocide arménien: négation à ‘l’allemande’” and “From Empire to Republic: The Continuities for Turkish Denial.”

Asbed Kotchikian is the assistant director of the International Affairs Program at Florida State University, where he also teaches courses on the Middle East and former Soviet space. His area of research includes the foreign policies of small states; the modern political history of the post-Soviet South Caucasus; and issues of national identity.

Dennis R. Papazian is professor emeritus of history and the founding director of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He is the former president of the Society for Armenian Studies and former editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, currently serving on its editorial board.

Ara Sanjian is associate professor of Armenian and Middle Eastern history and the director of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and received his school education there. In1991, he received his master’s degree in history from Yerevan State University. In 1994, he received his Ph.D. in modern Middle Eastern history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. From 1996–2005, he was the chairman of the department of Armenian studies, history and political science at Haigazian University in Beirut. In fall 2003, he was the Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at California State University, Fresno. His research interests focus on the post-World War I history of Armenia, Turkey, and the Arab states of Western Asia. He is the author of Turkey and Her Arab Neighbors, 1953–1958: A Study in the Origins and Failure of the Baghdad Pact (2001), as well as a monograph and a number of scholarly articles. He is currently working on a book-length project on the Armenian quest for Mountainous Karabagh under Soviet rule in 1923–87..

Henry Theriault is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester State College, where he has taught since 1998.His research focuses on genocide and human rights, with particular emphasis on genocide denial and its epistemological dimensions, the long-term impact of genocide and other mass violence, their ethical and political implications, and mass violence against women. His teaching includes courses on genocide and human rights, mass violence against women, the Armenian Genocide, ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of history, and gender/sexuality/race/class/nation. Theriault currently serves as co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal “Genocide Studies and Prevention.” He is also on the Advisory Council of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. From 1999 to 2007, he was coordinator of the Worcester State College Center for the Study of Human Rights.

Ugur Umit Ungor was born in 1980 and studied sociology and history at the Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, Toronto, and Amsterdam. His main area of interest is the historical sociology of mass violence and nationalism in the modern world. He has published on genocide, in general, and on the Rwandan and Armenian genocides, in particular. At present, he is finishing his Ph.D., titled “Young Turk Social Engineering: Genocide, Nationalism, and Memory in Eastern Turkey,1913–1950”at the department of history of the University of Amsterdam. He is also a staff member at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.

Eric D. Weitz is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where he also holds the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts. He has published A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (2003) and, most recently, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2007), and edits a series, Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, all with Princeton University Press. Weimar Germany was included in the “Year in Books” list of the Financial Times (London). A Century of Genocide was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.