Simon Payaslian is an Armenian-American historian, author, editor, who has held the Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature atBoston University since 2007.^[1] From 2002 to 2007, he held the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair inArmenian genocide Studies and ModernArmenian History atClark University.^[2]

Payaslian is the nephew ofCatholicosZareh I. His first doctoral degree was earned in Political Science fromWayne State University, after which he went on to earn a second doctoral degree in Armenian history at theUniversity of California Los Angeles underRichard Hovannisian, where his dissertation was titledUnited States Policy toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide.^[3]

• U.S. Foreign Economic and Military Aid: The Reagan and Bush Administrations (1996).
• International Political Economy: Conflict and Cooperation in the Global System (co-authored with Frederic S. Pearson) (1999; Chinese translation, Peking University Press, 2006)
• The Armenian Genocide, 1915–1923: A Handbook for Students and Teachers (2001)
• United States Policy toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide (2005)
• The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present (2007)
• He has co-edited (with Richard G. Hovannisian) two volumes, Armenian Constantinople (2010) and Armenian Cilicia (2008).^[4]

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