Michelle Tusan is a professor of history who received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Her books include: The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East (2024); The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill (2017/2019); Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East (2012) and Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain (2005). She has published prize-winning articles in the American Historical Review, The Journal of Modern History and Past and Present, and co-authored Britain Since 1688: A Nation in the World. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation and Fulbright. She is President of the North American Conference on British Studies.