Nora Lessersohn

Nora Lessersohn is a historian of the United States and the Middle East, with particular interests in politics, popular culture, and biography. She has taught at schools including Columbia University and George Washington University, and held fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Dr. Lessersohn has published articles on the memoir of her great-grandfather, Hovhannes Cherishian, and is currently completing a manuscript on Christopher Oscanyan’s use of New York’s popular entertainment culture to act as a political intermediary among the United States, the Ottoman Empire, and the Armenian diaspora in the nineteenth century. She is based in Washington D.C. where she is an Instructor in History at the University of Southern California’s Capital Campus.