Lecture with Sara Cohan and Dr. Dikran Kaligian, in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide

In commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Classrooms Without Borders is honored to bring Armenian Genocide scholars Sara Cohan and Dr. Dikran Kaligian to our community of learners in Pittsburgh and across the country over Zoom.
The Armenian Genocide and Its Lessons for Today
Sara Cohan serves as the Education Director of The Genocide Education Project, where she has worked for thirteen years. Her background combines research, study, curriculum development and teaching. She is a Museum Teacher Fellow for the U.S. Holocaust Museum and Memorial and has worked extensively with the USC Shoah Foundation. In 2001, Cohan was named the Research Fellow for Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and later served on their advisory board in 2012. She also studied in Mexico as a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays scholarship and studied Islamic influences in Europe as a fellow for the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was an expert lecturer at the Council of Europe’s European Youth Centre in Budapest in 2009 and has worked with the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute in Yerevan. Cohan has written articles and designed educational materials for a variety of organizations and publications. In 2015, a lesson plan she created appeared in the New York Times. She has twice published articles in Social Education and wrote a feature piece for Teaching Tolerance in 2002. She had essays published in Evoking Genocide (Key Publishing) and Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians (Facing History and Ourselves). Cohan has written lesson plans and units for ABC CLIO publishing, POV Documentaries, GLSEN, ACLU of Northern California amongst other education and human rights oriented associations. She has a Master’s degree in Social Science Education and was a high school social studies teacher in Florida. She is the granddaughter of an Armenian Genocide survivor.

Dr. Dikran Kaligian teaches history at Worcester State and previously taught at Clark University and Regis, Westfield State, and Wheaton colleges. He is past chairperson of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern Region and Managing Editor of the Armenian Review. He received his Ph.D. in history from Boston College. His book, “Armenian Organization and Ideology under Ottoman Rule, 1908-1914” was published in 2009 by Transaction Publishing.

The Genocide Education Project is based in San Francisco and serves educators nationwide. It is a nonprofit organization that assists educators in teaching about human rights and genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and distributing instructional materials, providing access to teaching resources and organizing educational workshops. For more information about the work of The Genocide Education Project please visit www.genocideeducation.org.