Khatchig Mouradian is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, and mass violence. He is a Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University and the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist in the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. He serves as Co-Principal Investigator on two interdisciplinary research initiatives: the Connectivity and Individuality in Textual Traditions project, funded by a Humanities and AI Virtual Institute grant from Schmidt Sciences; and the Armenian Genocide Denial project at New York University’s Global Institute for Advanced Study. Since 2024, he has also taught in the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Mouradian is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1918 (2021). He is co-editor of After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience (2023) and The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy (2025). His scholarship explores genocide, concentration camps, humanitarianism, unarmed resistance, midwifery in the Middle East, and pedagogy, with articles and chapters published in numerous journals and edited volumes. He also serves as editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review.
At Columbia, Mouradian’s courses—including “Urban Space and Conflict in the Middle East,” “War, Genocide, and Their Aftermath,” “A Social History of Concentration Camps,” and “Apologies and Non-Apologies”—bring together archival, literary, and material sources to explore questions of violence, displacement, memory, and repair. He is Associate Faculty at both the Harriman Institute and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and regularly mentors undergraduate and graduate researchers working on topics related to mass violence, human rights, and the Middle East. He previously held teaching and visiting positions at California State University, Fresno; Rutgers University; Worcester State University; and Stockton University.
Mouradian has been recognized with numerous awards for scholarship, teaching, and public impact. His words and work have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, BBC, France 24, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Al-Monitor, and many other international outlets. In 2025, he became the first historian to be featured in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony interactive biography series.