Displacement in the Middle East and Russia/Soviet Union

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This graduate seminar examines displacement, refugee migration, and ethnic cleansing in theMiddle East and Russia/Soviet Union since 1850 through a comparative and transnational perspective. Graduate students explore various ideologies that underpinned mass violence, starting with forced migrations of Jews and Muslims out of Imperial Russia, through the Armenian Genocide and Stalins deportations, to post-World War II displacements, and to the Syrian civil war and Russias invasion of Ukraine. This course delves into the evolution of global ideas and practices of ethnic cleansing, humanitarianism, and population transfers.