Khatchig Mouradian is a journalist and academic who works as a lecturer at Columbia University. [1]
Mouradian was born in an Armenian family in Lebanon. [2] He worked as the editor of the Armenian Weekly. [3] He is the recipient the Gulbenkian Armenian Studies research fellowship to study the Armenian community in China in the 20th century (2014). [4] Mouradian is also the recipient of the first Hrant Dink Freedom and Justice Medal (2014) of the Organization of Istanbul Armenians. [5] In 2016, Mouradian earned the first PhD in Armenian Genocide studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University; scholars Taner Akçam, Debórah Dwork, and Raymond Kévorkian formed the committee that approved his dissertation, titled Genocide and Humanitarian Assistance in Ottoman Syria (1915–1917). [6]