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). The book received the 2022 Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies and the 2021 Syrian Studies Association honorable mention. (Read the International Journal of Middle East Studies review of the book here).

Mouradian is the 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). He has published articles and book chapters on ethnic cleansing in the 19th century, concentration camps, unarmed resistance, the aftermath of mass violence, midwifery in the Middle East, and approaches to teaching history. He also serves as the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review.

At Columbia University, Mouradian is also Associate Faculty at the Harriman Institute for the study of Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR).

Since 2017, Mouradian teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at Columbia University on “Urban Space and Conflict in the Middle East,” “War, Genocide, and Aftermath,” “Apologies and Non-Apologies,” “Literature of the Great War in the Middle East,” and “A Social History of Concentration Camps.”

Mouradian served as the Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor at California State University – Fresno (Fall 2016). From 2015-2016, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University. He has taught courses on imperialism, mass violence, urban space and conflict in the Middle East, the aftermaths of war and mass violence, and human rights at Worcester State University and Clark University in Massachusetts, Stockton University in New Jersey, and the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.

Mouradian is the recipient of many awards including the ANCA Western Region’s Richard G. Hovannisian Higher Educator Award (2023), a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia University (2020), the Armenian Relief Society’s Agnouni Award (2018), the Society for Armenian Studies Best Conference Paper Award (2015), a Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellowship to write the history of the Armenian community in China in the 19th and 20th centuries (2014), and the first Hrant Dink Justice and Freedom Award of the Organization of Istanbul Armenians (2014). In 2025, he became the first historian to be featured in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony interactive biography series.

Mouradian’s work and words have been featured in The Washington Post, BBC, FOX TV, France 24, The New York Times, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Al Jazeera, CNN Türk, Imedi TV (Georgia), The Economist, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, Psychology Today, Gothamist, Elle Magazine, Christianity Today, Euronews, Eurasianet, Clarín (Argentina), Al-Monitor, The Times of Israel, The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Burlington Free Press, The Jewish Advocate, Al-Ahram (Egypt), Truthout, Middle East Eye, Arab News, and several other news outlets, on issues related to public apologies, the Middle East, human rights, mass violence, Armenian, Ottoman, and Middle Eastern culture, politics, and history.

Mouradian holds a PhD in History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, a graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution from UMass Boston, and a B.S. in Biology from Haigazian University, where he has also completed graduate coursework in Clinical Psychology.