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Taner Akçam Associate Professor, History the Strassler Family Center Taner Akçam Associate Professor, History The Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 phone: 508-421 3863 fax: 508-793 8827 email: [email protected] DATE May 2010 HOME 58 Waterford Drive Worcester, MA 01602 PRESENT RANK Associate Professor, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Department of History Clark University EDUCATION Ph.D. Hanover University (Germany), 1996 B.A. Middle East Technical University (Turkey), 1975 FOREIGN Turkish (native), German, Ottoman Turkish LANGUAGES FIELDS Major: Armenian Genocide and the Theory of Genocide, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish History, Social and Political History of the Modern Middle East, Sociology of Violence Minor: History of Islam, Social Movements, Sociology of Religion, Social Change, Comparative Historical Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations, Political Sociology POSITIONS HELD Until 2008 2004–2008 Professor of Record for accreditation by University of Minnesota, Genocide and Human Rights University Program, International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies 2002–2004 Member of Faculty, Genocide and Human Rights University Program, International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies 2001–02 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2000–01 Visiting Scholar, Armenian Research Center University of Michigan, Dearborn 1988–2002 Research Scientist in Sociology Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung 1975–76 Teaching Assistant Middle East Technical University SERVICE 2001 Consultant to MacArthur Foundation PUBLICATIONS I. Books ‘Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton University Press, 2012 Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials, with Vahakn Dadrian, Berghahn Books, New York 2011. “Essays on 1915” (1915 Yazıları), İletişim Publishing House, January 2010 (in Turkish) “Deportation and Massacres, Protocols of Military Tribunal, Trial of Union and Progress Party (1919-1922)” (Tehcir ve Taktil Divan-ı Harb-i Örfi Zabıtları / İttihad ve Terakki'nin Yargılanması (1919-1922) With Vahakn N. Dadrian, Bilgi University Publication, Istanbul 2009 (in Turkish). “Armenian Problem is solved” The Policies towards Armenians during the War Years According to Ottoman Documents (“Ermeni Meselesi Hallolmuştur” Osmanlı Belgelerine Göre Savaş 2 Yıllarında Ermenilere Yönelik Politikalar) İletişim Publishing House, January 2008 (in Turkish) A Shameful Act: Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. New York: Metropolitan Books, November 2006. From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide. London: Zed Books, 2004. Dialogue Across an International Divide: Essays Towards a Turkish-Armenian Dialogue. Toronto: The Zoryan Institute of Canada, 2001. The Armenian Taboo Exposed (Ermeni Tabusu Aralanırken). Ankara: Su Yayınları, 2000 (in Turkish). Europe and Turkey (Europa und die Türkei). Hamburg: Green Party Publications, 2000 (in German). The Armenian Question and Human Rights in History: From the Party of Union and Progress to the Turkish War of Independence (İnsan Hakları ve Ermeni Sorunu –İttihat ve Terakki’den Kurtuluş Savaşına). Ankara: İmge Yayınları, 1999 (in Turkish; English translation in progress). The Armenian Question in History: The Turkish National Movement and the Istanbul Trials, 1919–22 (Armenien und die Völkermord. Die Istanbuler Prozesse und die türkische Nationalbewegung). Hamburg: Verlag Hamburger Edition, 1996 (in German). Re-envisioning the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye’yi Yeniden Düsünmek). Istanbul: Birikim Yayınları, 1995 (in Turkish). The Boundaries of Tolerance in Islam (İslamda Tolerans ve Sınırı). Ankara: Başak Yayınları, 1994 (in Turkish). The Armenian Question and Turkish National Identity (Türk Ulusal Kimliği ve Ermeni Sorunu). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1992 (original in Turkish; Russian edition in 1995, Armenian in 1996, and Arabic in 1997). Torture and Violence in Turkish Political Culture (Siyasi Kültürümüzde Zulüm ve İşkence). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1991 (in Turkish). Marxism and Human Rights (İnsan Haklari ve Marksizm). Istanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1991 (in Turkish). II. Articles and Book Chapters “The Young Turks and the Plans for the Ethnic Homogenization of Anatolia”, in: "Borderlands: Peoples, Nations, and Cultures in the Shatterzone of Empires since 1848," ed. Omer Bartov and 3 Eric D. Weitz. 2012 “The Roundup of Intellectuals and the Beginning of the Armenian Genocide: The Murder of Dr. Rupen Sevag Çilingiryan”, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Volume 25, Issue 1 Pp. 127-143. “The Relationship between Historians and Archival Records: A Critique of Single Source Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide”, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, 2011 Spring. “Facing History: A Threat to National Security, The Relationship between Turkish and American National Security Concepts and Armenian Genocide”, in: Armenian Weekly, Special Edition, April 2009 “Denial as a Security Concept”, Cardoza Journal of Conflict Resolution, Volume 10, No: 1, Fall 2008 “Guenter Lewy and new trends in Genocide Denial” Genocide Studies And Prevention. An International Journal Official Journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, 3:1 (2008), pp. 111-145 “Review of Guenter Lewy, ‘The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide’,” Journal of Genocide Research, 9: 1 (2007), pp. 135-41. “Deportation and Massacres in the Cipher Telegrams of the Interior Ministry in the Prime Ministerial Archive (Başbakanlık Arşivi).”Genocide Studies And Prevention An International Journal Official Journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, (January 2007): 306-325 ‘‘The Ottoman Documents and the Genocidal Policies of the Committee for Union and Progress (Ittihat ve Terakki) toward the Armenians in 1915.’’ Genocide Studies and Prevention, no. 2 (September 2006): 127–148 “Gündüz Aktan ve Soykırımda Saik Meselesi” [Gündüz Aktan and the Question of Motive in Genocide Definition]. Birikim (Turkish Social Science Journal), 201, January 2006 “Anatomy of Genocide Denial: Academics, Politicians, and the ‘Re-Making’ of History.” Occasional paper. University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 2005. "Soykırım Suçunda Kasıt Unsuru Konusunda Bazı Notlar" [On Criminal Intent in the Genocide: Some Observations]. Birikim (Turkish Social Science Journal),199, November 2005. “Turks and Armenians” (with Belinda Cooper). World Policy Journal 22, no. 3 (Fall 2005). “Bir Skandal: Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi’nin Mektubu ya da Şükrü Elekdağ ve Justin McCarthy bu Ülkeyi Nereye Sürüklüyorlar?” [A Scandal: The Letter of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, or, What Are Şükrü Elekdağ and Justin McCarthy Dragging This Country Into?] Birikim, no. 193-4, May 2005. 4 “Anatomy of a Crime: The Turkish Historical Society’s Manipulation of Archival Documents.” Journal of Genocide Research 7, no. 2 (June 2005). “Bir Kitap Ya da Bir Cinayetin Anatomisi” (A Book, or, Anatomy of a Crime). Birikim (Turkish Social Science Journal), no. 191 March 2005. “Vahakn N. Dadrian: Ermeni Soykırımında Kurumsal Roller,” [The Role of Institutions in the Armenian Genocide]Virgül (Turkish review of books) 76, September 2004. “Türkishe Leugnung des Völkermordes and den Armeniern im Europäischen Kontext” (Turkish Denial of Armenian Genocide within European Context) in Huberta von Voss, ed. Porträt einer Hoffnung Die Armenier. Lebensbilder aus aller Welt (Portraits of Hope: The Armenians. Pictures of Lives from all over the world). Berlin: Verlag Hans Schiler, 2004. “A New Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Turkish National Identity: Norbert Elias’s Approach in Comparative Perspective” (Norbert Elias’ın “Almanlar Üzerine Çalışmalar”ının Türk Ulusal Karakterini Anlamak için Sunduğu İmkanlar). Toplum ve Bilim (Science and Society): Spring 2000. “Secularism in the Turkish Nation-Building Process” (Der türkische Nationalisierungsprozess und der Laizismus). In Core and Periphery: Turkish Religious Minorities in Germany (Kern und Rand, Religiöse Minderheiten aus der Türkei in Deutschland), ed. Gerdien Jonker. Berlin: Berliner Verlag, 1999 (in German). “Sanctioned Historical Themes in Turkey” (Zur Tabuisierung geschichtlicher Themen in der Türkei). In The Republic of Armenia and Switzerland 1896–1923 (Schweiz und die Armenien 1896–1923), ed. Hans-Lukas Kieser. Zurich: Chronos-Verlag, 1999 (in German). “Genocide Charges against the Turks and the Turkish National Movement” (Die türkische Nationalbewegung und die Bestrafung der Türken wegen des Völkermordes). In The Republic of Armenia in Difficult Straits: From Past to the Present (Armenien, Geschichte und Gegenwart in schwierigem Umfeld), German-Armenian Association, ed. Frankfurt a.M.: GAA Verlag, 1998 (in German). “Causes and Consequences of Censoring Turkish History” (Tarihimizi Tabulastirma Nedenleri ve Sonuçları). Birikim (Turkish Social Science Journal) 107, March 1998 (in Turkish). “An Alternative Historical Narrative of the Sevres and Lausanne Treaties on the 75th Anniversary of the Turkish Republic” (Cumhuriyetin 75. yılında Sevr ve Lozan’ın Bir Başka Tarihi). Birikim (Turkish Social Science Journal) 115, November 1998 (in Turkish). “The Rapid Process of Turkification” (Hızla Türkleşiyoruz). In Identity and Democracy in the Turkish Republic (Cumhuriyet Demokrasi ve Kimlik), ed. Nuri Bilgin. Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınları, 1997 (in Turkish). “The Concept of ‘the Other’ in the East and the
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