Cathie Carmichael

Professor Cathie Carmichael, affiliated with the University of East Anglia's School of History, is a leading scholar in genocide studies, national identity, and historical violence in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean. She delivered the 2016 Hugo Valentin Lecture at Uppsala University on Genocide before the Holocaust, exploring early 20th-century cases like Talât Paşa's assassination and their influence on Raphael Lemkin's conceptualization of genocide.

• Research focuses on nationalism, border conflicts, and destruction of cultural traditions
• Author/editor of key works including Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans and The Routledge History of Genocide
• Lecture addressed intersections between legal impartiality, individual liberty, and violent political change