Ronald Grigor Suny is an eminent American historian and political scientist who serves as the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. A pioneer in the cultural turn of Soviet studies, his research focuses on class, nationalism, empire-building, and ethnic conflict, with a specific geographic focus on the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the South Caucasus. He is the author of numerous foundational texts, including “They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide (2015) and Stalin: Passage to Revolution (2020), which trace the deep structural histories and political transformations of the region.
