We are excited to share that Bedross Der Matossian was named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Near Eastern Studies!
The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award given to individuals who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or superior creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants, the Class of 2026 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise.
“Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation.
Bedross Der Matossian is a professor of modern Middle East history and the Hymen Rosenberg Associate Professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the editor of Shattered Truths: Denial of Genocides in the Digital Age (Nebraska, 2027), Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century (Nebraska, 2023), and the author of The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century and Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire.
Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century
By concentrating on factors such as the role of communications and news media, global and national social networks, the weaponization of information by authoritarian regimes and political parties, court cases in the United States and Europe, freedom of speech, and postmodernist thought, this volume discusses how genocide denial is becoming a fact of daily life in the twenty-first century.
Shattered Truths
In the digital age, governments and individuals alike harness online platforms to spread misinformation, manipulate narratives, and obscure historical truths surrounding mass atrocities. This edited volume explores how the internet has evolved into a powerful instrument for both state and non-state actors seeking to deny or distort genocides worldwide.
Read more about Bedross Der Matossian and his work in Nebraska Today.
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