About Melanie Schulze Tanielian

Melanie Schulze Tanielian is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Program for International and Comparative Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She specializes in the history of war, famine, and humanitarianism in the modern Middle East. Schulze Tanielian earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Her first monograph, *Charity of War: Famine, Humanitarian Aid and World War I in the Middle East (2018), examines how local, state, and international actors dealt with* famine and disease on the Ottoman homefront. Recent publications include articles in the *American Historical Review, the International Journal for Middle East Studies, and the** Journal for Genocide Research*. She is currently completing a monograph on German faith-based humanitarianism on behalf of Ottoman Armenians, 1890-1930.