The Making of “Genocide and Resistance”

Genocide and Resistance, my latest book, has recently been published in Argentina by University of Buenos Aires Press. My goal in writing this book was to insert the reader immediately and directly into the history of the Armenian Genocide. My intention was to reconstruct for readers not only the persecution and pain of 1915 but also the journey of resistance that these women and men undertook to escape, to survive and to seek justice.

I started writing this book sometime in 2014, months after defending my doctoral dissertation at SUNY Stony Brook. Too much has happened in the years since, especially in the past three years: a global pandemic and a war in which the followers of actors already known attacked while proclaiming their genocidal intentions. During the writing of this book, and later, during my search for a publisher, I too became someone who resisted.