Armen T. Marsoobian, Ph.D, is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, Affiliated Faculty of Institute of Human Rights at University of Connecticut. He was the Ordjanian Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Columbia University in Spring 2022. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley philosophy journal, Metaphilosophy. He serves as First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, in addition to serving on the boards of Columbia University’s Armenian Center, the Yale Genocide Studies Program and the Community Advisory Committee of Alice K. Norian Program for Armenian Studies at Universi…
Armen T. Marsoobian, Ph.D, is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, Affiliated Faculty of Institute of Human Rights at University of Connecticut. He was the Ordjanian Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Columbia University in Spring 2022. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley philosophy journal, Metaphilosophy. He serves as First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, in addition to serving on the boards of Columbia University’s Armenian Center, the Yale Genocide Studies Program and the Community Advisory Committee of Alice K. Norian Program for Armenian Studies at University of Connecticut. He has lectured and published extensively on topics in moral philosophy, genocide studies, human rights, aesthetics, Armenian photography & cinema, and American philosophy. He has developed courses on human rights, genocide and Holocaust studies, and the Armenian Genocide, including courses on literary and artistic responses to mass atrocity. He works closely with the Digital Media & Design department at the University of Connecticut on the Armenian Memory Project that incorporates oral testimonies and archives in student created films and digital exhibitions. He serves on the Connecticut State Department of Education Advisory Committee on Genocide and Holocaust Education.
He has co-edited seven books, including Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Memory (2018), Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card (2018), Genocide’s Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair (2007). His award-winning book, Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia, is based upon extensive research about his family, the Dildilians, who were accomplished photographers in the Ottoman Empire. He is working on an expanded second edition of the book for Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris Publishing. He organized exhibitions of the Dildilian photography archive in Turkey (Istanbul, Merzifon, Diyarbakir, Ankara), Armenia (Yerevan), Great Britain (London), Greece (Athens), and the United States (Chicago, New York City, New Haven, Storrs, Watertown, Glendale). Upcoming exhibitions will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece and Valence, France. His companion volume to the exhibitions, Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home: The Dildilian Photography Collection was published in both English and Turkish. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities & Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2022-2023) in order to develop a virtual digital version of the exhibition. He has worked closely with NGOs in Turkey that focus on the treatment of minorities and accountability with regard to the Armenian Genocide.