Bedross Der Matossian
Professor History University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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637 OLDH
Lincoln NE 68588-0327 - Phone
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402-472-2414 On-campus 2-2414
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bdermatossian2@unl.edu
Bedross Der Matossian is a Professor of Modern Middle East History in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he began his graduate studies in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He completed his Ph.D. in Middle East History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Lecturer of Middle East History in the Faculty of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For the Spring quarter of 2014, he was appointed as the Dumanian Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. His areas of interest include ethnic politics in the Middle East, inter-ethnic violence in the Ottoman Empire, Palestinian history, and the history of the Armenian Genocide.
Currently, he is the vice-chair of the Department of History. He was the President of the Society for Armenian Studies (2018-2022). He serves on the Board of Directors of multiple international educational institutions and on the editorial board of multiple journals, the most prominent of which is the flagship journal of the field: International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES). He is also the series editor of Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World published by I.B.Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Press.
For more info see https://un-lincoln.academia.edu/BedrossDerMatossian.
Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University
- M.A., M.Phil., Columbia University
- B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem