Taner Akcam

Taner Akçam holds the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. His best-known books are A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books, 2006); Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials , with Vahakn Dadrian (Berghahn Books, 2011); and The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire , (Princeton University Press, 2012), which in 2013...See more

Taner Akçam holds the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. His best-known books are A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books, 2006); Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials , with Vahakn Dadrian (Berghahn Books, 2011); and The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire , (Princeton University Press, 2012), which in 2013 received the Middle East Studies Association's Hourani Book Prize and was listed by Foreign Affairs as "Best International Relations Books of 2012." See less