Written by Keith David Watenpaugh
Much of what is written here also applies to most of the other non-Muslim races of the times, to include the Greeks and Assyrians who suffered the same fate. I know, that from speaking to my last remaining uncle over the last 5 years, in which he acknowledged the fact, that his mother (my grandmother), held fears that her 3 children (my 2x uncles and aunty), taken by the Turkish gangs in 1921 , may have suffered the same fate as these children described in this publication. She never saw her children again. This apparently was my grandmothers greatest fear, and as she stated, would have preferred to see them perish instead. An unbelievable thing for her to say, and very hard for me to comprehend, yet her reasoning may have been influenced by her first hand experiences.
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“Are There Any Children for Sale?”: Genocide and the Transfer of Armenian Children (1915–1922)
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“Are There Any Children for Sale?”: Genocide and the Transfer of Armenian Children (1915–1922)
Keith David Watenpaugh
Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights and Peace
Director of Human Rights Minor and UC Davis Human Rights Initiative
Co-Director of UC Human Rights Collaboration
2012-2013 ACLS/NEH/SSRC International and Area Studies Fellow
Email: kwatenpaugh@ucdavis.edu
Personal Website: http://humanrightsinitiative.ucdavis.edu/blog/
Office:
902 Sproul
Education and Degree(s):
B.A. (with Honors), History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Washington
Ph.D. Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
Profile:
Keith David Watenpaugh is a historian of the Modern Middle East and Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights & Peace who teaches in the Religious Studies and Human Rights Minor programs. Trained at UCLA, he has lived and conducted research in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Armenia and Iraq.
At UC Davis, Dr. Watenpaugh teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on Modern Islam, Genocide, Human Rights, Humanitarianism, Fundamentalism and the larger issues raised by the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria. He developed the Interdisciplinary Minor in Human Rights, and serves as the minor’s primary advisor.
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Dr. Watenpaugh is also the founding director of the UC Davis Human Rights Initiative. Human Rights is a new field, but one that allows scholars and students to exam enduring and important questions about suffering, the destruction of culture, injustice, and power and powerlessness in ways that transcend established disciplines. The HRI exists to build faculty and graduate student capacity in the research and teaching of Human Rights, as well as to enable undergraduates to integrate Human Rights into their own fields of study. Over the past four, years, the HRI has grown from a series of faculty conversations that led to the creation of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Human Rights (which graduate its first minors in 2011-2012) to a diverse project embracing the several elements of the university’s mission.
With colleagues from UCSD and UCSB, Dr. Watenpaugh is the co-director of the UC Human Rights Collaboration, a multi-campus research group sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute.
Princeton University Press published his first book Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism and the Arab Middle Class and he has written articles for the American Historical Review, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Social History, the Journal of Human Rights and Middle East Report. His work has been translated into Arabic, French, German, Turkish and Persian.
He is currently finishing the book, Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism. The book is under contract with the University of California Press.
Over the year the 2012-2013, Dr. Watenpaugh will be a American Council of Learned Societies/National Endowment for the Humanities/Social Science Research Council International and Area Studies Fellow.
He also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
He has received several noteworthy grants including the CIEE Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, Social Science Research Council, Will Rogers and the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq fellowships; he was the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Middle East Studies at Williams College (1998-2000), a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Center of Middle East Studies (2004), in 2005-2006 he was the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Democracy and Diversity at the Tanner Humanities Center, Univ. of Utah and in 2008-2009 he was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow in International Peace at the United States Institute of Peace.
As one of the few American scholars to have lived and worked in Syria, Dr. Watenpaugh has worked extensively with media, non-governmental organizations and the US goverment to create a better understanding of the humanitarian and human rights problems facing the Syrian people as their country faces civil war.
Dr. Watenpaugh has also become involved in international elections monitoring and is part of a group of UC faculty and researches creating the UC Election Observation and Technical Assistance (UCEOTA) Group.
A father of twins, he is an avid fly fisherman, sailor and bicyclist, enjoys working in his garden and growing California native species.
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