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Altuğ Taner Akçam (born 1953) is a Turkish-German historian [1] and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and has written several books on the genocide, such as A Shameful Act (1999), From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide ...
Taner Akçam is a historian and sociologist who studies the Armenian Genocide and advocates for human rights and democracy in Turkey. He is the first Turkish intellectual to acknowledge the genocide and the only professor of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Taner Akçam is the is the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA. Previously he was the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair in Modern Armenian History and Genocide in the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Historian and sociologist Taner Akçam received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of Hanover, with a dissertation on The Turkish National Movement and the Armenian Genocide Against the Background of the Military Tribunals in Istanbul Between 1919 and 1922.
Dr. Taner Akçam, a Turkish-American historian and sociologist, is an international authority on the Armenian Genocide and a leader in human rights. He holds the Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Articles 1–20. Clark University - Cited by 3,404 - Armenian History - Armenian Genocide - Late Ottoman History - Turkish History - History of theMiddle East.
Honors the life and the work of Taner Akçam, the first Turkish intellectual to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. Includes twelve contributions from Armenian genocide scholars around the globe. Sheds new light on the historiography of the genocide, its perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.
