Michelle Elizabeth Tusan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1011959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Elizabeth Tusan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Tusan |
| SIGNATURE | TUSAN M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1925-9384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forum: 1776. Views from the British World: Teaching the Declaration of Independence as Imperial History
Timed to coincide with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the United States of America, this series of articles complicates traditional narratives of this transformative event by situating it within a larger British world context. Debates surrounding mandated instruction in the origin of the United States have reemerged in recent years. This article discusses teachin…
What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J. S. Mill and Harriet Hardy Taylor
This article was presented as the Presidential Address at the North American Conference on British Studies in Montreal in November 2025
How Not to Recognize Genocide
Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East
The Long, Inescapable Reach of Genocide
Ü. Kurt, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
The Concentration Camp as Site of Refuge: The Rise of the Refugee Camp and the Great War in the Middle East
The refugee camp today has been naturalized as a product of failed international idealism and political expediency that serves as a timeless reminder of the plight of displaced peoples. This article explores the refugee camp’s origins as a product of a late Victorian imperial and military legacy and the contingencies of World War I. The use of the concentration camp as a tool to provide refuge and control displaced populations began during the wa…
B erel L ang . Genocide: The Act as Idea
Berel Lang’s Genocide: The Act as Idea has as its clear purpose the “defense of the concept and term ‘genocide’” (1). Raphael Lemkin originally coined the term “genocide” following World War II, and the very idea itself, Lang contends, remains a relevant, important, and indispensable guide to resolving the moral and political dilemmas created after the war. The book is a response to critics and those who would replace “genocide” with ultimately m…
Caroline Shaw. Britannia’s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Britannia’s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the origins of humanitarianism and its more muscular twin, human rights, in Britain’s long nineteenth century. Using the category of refuge as a means of understanding a new moral engagement with the suffering of distant strangers, Caroline Shaw deftly demonstrates the significance of debates over the status of…
Genocide, Famine And Refugees On Film: Humanitarianism And The First World War
This article analyzes the uses of silent film by humanitarian organizations to shape understandings of the purpose of emergency aid during the Great War. After peace was declared in 1918, the war in the East persisted for another 4 years. The continuation of the conflict until the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 led to unprecedented suffering for those populations affected by world war, famine and in the case of Ottoman Christian minori…
Crimes against Humanity”: Human Rights, the British Empire, and the Origins of the Response to the Armenian Genocide
Laurence Fenton. Palmerston and The Times: Foreign Policy, the Press and Public Opinion in Mid-Victorian Britain
Journal Article Laurence Fenton. Palmerston and The Times: Foreign Policy, the Press and Public Opinion in Mid-Victorian Britain. Get access Laurence Fenton. Palmerston and The Times: Foreign Policy, the Press and Public Opinion in Mid-Victorian Britain. New York: I. B. Tauris. 2013. Pp. 213. $92.00. Michelle Tusan Michelle Tusan University of Nevada, Las Vegas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American …
Humanitarianism, genocide and liberalism
The international response to genocide and human rights violations has received increasing attention by scholars in the humanities and social sciences. This article explores the history of the response to mass atrocity by assessing recent work on humanitarianism as an idea and in practice in the West. It argues that the impulse to defend the rights of others historically has been tied up with geopolitical and imperial concerns that shaped Europea…
Britain and the Middle East: New Historical Perspectives on the Eastern Question
Recent work on Britain and the Middle East promises to reinvigorate the field by introducing a new set of questions and archival sources. This essay reviews current scholarship by looking back at the historiography of the Eastern Question. First defined as a field in the wake of WWI, the study of British foreign and domestic policy in the Ottoman Empire inspired generations of historical work on the region. This early wave of historiography provo…
Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 (review)
Reviewed by: Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 Michelle Tusan (bio) Marysa Demoor , ed. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 239 pp. ISBN 1-403-93329-4, $65.00. Marketing the Author brings together a collection of essays that explore the role of the author as agent in creating his or her own literary pers…
Writingstri dharma: International feminism, nationalist politics, and women's press advocacy in late colonial India
This article contributes to recent historical debates regarding the shared connections between the colony and the metropole in British-ruled India through the examination of Stri Dharma, a widely known journal started in India in 1918 by British feminists. Neither completely British nor Indian in character, this women-run journal emerged during the 1920s and 1930s as an international feminist news medium targeted at Anglo-Indian, Indian, and Brit…
Writing stri dharma: International feminism, nationalist politics, and women's press advocacy in late colonial India
Not the Ordinary Victorian Charity: The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women Archive
Journal Article 'Not the Ordinary Victorian Charity': The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women Archive Get access Michelle Elizabeth Tusan Michelle Elizabeth Tusan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 49, Issue 1, SPRING 2000, Pages 220–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/2000.49.220 Published: 01 March 2000
Crimes against Humanity”: Human Rights, the British Empire, and the Origins of the Response to the Armenian Genocide
Humanitarianism, genocide and liberalism
The international response to genocide and human rights violations has received increasing attention by scholars in the humanities and social sciences. This article explores the history of the response to mass atrocity by assessing recent work on humanitarianism as an idea and in practice in the West. It argues that the impulse to defend the rights of others historically has been tied up with geopolitical and imperial concerns that shaped Europea…
Writingstri dharma: International feminism, nationalist politics, and women's press advocacy in late colonial India
This article contributes to recent historical debates regarding the shared connections between the colony and the metropole in British-ruled India through the examination of Stri Dharma, a widely known journal started in India in 1918 by British feminists. Neither completely British nor Indian in character, this women-run journal emerged during the 1920s and 1930s as an international feminist news medium targeted at Anglo-Indian, Indian, and Brit…
The Concentration Camp as Site of Refuge: The Rise of the Refugee Camp and the Great War in the Middle East
The refugee camp today has been naturalized as a product of failed international idealism and political expediency that serves as a timeless reminder of the plight of displaced peoples. This article explores the refugee camp’s origins as a product of a late Victorian imperial and military legacy and the contingencies of World War I. The use of the concentration camp as a tool to provide refuge and control displaced populations began during the wa…
Britain and the Middle East: New Historical Perspectives on the Eastern Question
Recent work on Britain and the Middle East promises to reinvigorate the field by introducing a new set of questions and archival sources. This essay reviews current scholarship by looking back at the historiography of the Eastern Question. First defined as a field in the wake of WWI, the study of British foreign and domestic policy in the Ottoman Empire inspired generations of historical work on the region. This early wave of historiography provo…
Writing stri dharma: International feminism, nationalist politics, and women's press advocacy in late colonial India
Not the Ordinary Victorian Charity: The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women Archive
Journal Article 'Not the Ordinary Victorian Charity': The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women Archive Get access Michelle Elizabeth Tusan Michelle Elizabeth Tusan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 49, Issue 1, SPRING 2000, Pages 220–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/2000.49.220 Published: 01 March 2000
Writingstri dharma: International feminism, nationalist politics, and women's press advocacy in late colonial India
This article contributes to recent historical debates regarding the shared connections between the colony and the metropole in British-ruled India through the examination of Stri Dharma, a widely known journal started in India in 1918 by British feminists. Neither completely British nor Indian in character, this women-run journal emerged during the 1920s and 1930s as an international feminist news medium targeted at Anglo-Indian, Indian, and Brit…
Writing stri dharma: International feminism, nationalist politics, and women's press advocacy in late colonial India
Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 (review)
Reviewed by: Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 Michelle Tusan (bio) Marysa Demoor , ed. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 239 pp. ISBN 1-403-93329-4, $65.00. Marketing the Author brings together a collection of essays that explore the role of the author as agent in creating his or her own literary pers…
Britain and the Middle East: New Historical Perspectives on the Eastern Question
Recent work on Britain and the Middle East promises to reinvigorate the field by introducing a new set of questions and archival sources. This essay reviews current scholarship by looking back at the historiography of the Eastern Question. First defined as a field in the wake of WWI, the study of British foreign and domestic policy in the Ottoman Empire inspired generations of historical work on the region. This early wave of historiography provo…
Crimes against Humanity”: Human Rights, the British Empire, and the Origins of the Response to the Armenian Genocide
Laurence Fenton. Palmerston and The Times: Foreign Policy, the Press and Public Opinion in Mid-Victorian Britain
Journal Article Laurence Fenton. Palmerston and The Times: Foreign Policy, the Press and Public Opinion in Mid-Victorian Britain. Get access Laurence Fenton. Palmerston and The Times: Foreign Policy, the Press and Public Opinion in Mid-Victorian Britain. New York: I. B. Tauris. 2013. Pp. 213. $92.00. Michelle Tusan Michelle Tusan University of Nevada, Las Vegas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American …
Humanitarianism, genocide and liberalism
The international response to genocide and human rights violations has received increasing attention by scholars in the humanities and social sciences. This article explores the history of the response to mass atrocity by assessing recent work on humanitarianism as an idea and in practice in the West. It argues that the impulse to defend the rights of others historically has been tied up with geopolitical and imperial concerns that shaped Europea…
Caroline Shaw. Britannia’s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Britannia’s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the origins of humanitarianism and its more muscular twin, human rights, in Britain’s long nineteenth century. Using the category of refuge as a means of understanding a new moral engagement with the suffering of distant strangers, Caroline Shaw deftly demonstrates the significance of debates over the status of…
Genocide, Famine And Refugees On Film: Humanitarianism And The First World War
This article analyzes the uses of silent film by humanitarian organizations to shape understandings of the purpose of emergency aid during the Great War. After peace was declared in 1918, the war in the East persisted for another 4 years. The continuation of the conflict until the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 led to unprecedented suffering for those populations affected by world war, famine and in the case of Ottoman Christian minori…
B erel L ang . Genocide: The Act as Idea
Berel Lang’s Genocide: The Act as Idea has as its clear purpose the “defense of the concept and term ‘genocide’” (1). Raphael Lemkin originally coined the term “genocide” following World War II, and the very idea itself, Lang contends, remains a relevant, important, and indispensable guide to resolving the moral and political dilemmas created after the war. The book is a response to critics and those who would replace “genocide” with ultimately m…
Ü. Kurt, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
The Concentration Camp as Site of Refuge: The Rise of the Refugee Camp and the Great War in the Middle East
The refugee camp today has been naturalized as a product of failed international idealism and political expediency that serves as a timeless reminder of the plight of displaced peoples. This article explores the refugee camp’s origins as a product of a late Victorian imperial and military legacy and the contingencies of World War I. The use of the concentration camp as a tool to provide refuge and control displaced populations began during the wa…
The Long, Inescapable Reach of Genocide
Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East
How Not to Recognize Genocide
Forum: 1776. Views from the British World: Teaching the Declaration of Independence as Imperial History
Timed to coincide with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the United States of America, this series of articles complicates traditional narratives of this transformative event by situating it within a larger British world context. Debates surrounding mandated instruction in the origin of the United States have reemerged in recent years. This article discusses teachin…
What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J. S. Mill and Harriet Hardy Taylor
This article was presented as the Presidential Address at the North American Conference on British Studies in Montreal in November 2025
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