Professional Affiliation

The William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History, University of Michigan

Expert Bio

Ronald Grigor Suny, the William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago, is recognized as a leading expert in Soviet, Armenian, and Georgian history, nationalism and empire studies, and is the author of The Revenge of the Past (1993); The Making of the Georgian Nation (1994); "They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (2015); and with Valerie A. Kivelson, Russia's Empires (2017).

Wilson Center Project

"The Armenian Genocide, 1915-1916"

Project Summary

Final preparation of a book for Princeton University Press on the Armenian Genocide

Major Publications

A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History (Indiana University Press, 1993);

(ed.), The Cambridge History of Russia, III: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006);