Alan Whitehorn

Alan Whitehorn
Photo credit: Lusine Nerkararyan 2009
Profession	Professor, Author, Political Scientist, Poet
Languages	English
Ethnicities	Canadian

Alan Whitehorn is an emeritus professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. He received his BA (York) in Political Science & History and his MA and PhD (Carleton) in political science. In the mid-seventies, he served as the research director on the David Lewis memoirs. From 1978 to 2011 he was a professor of political science at RMC. In the mid-1990s, he was the first holder of the JS Woodsworth Chair in Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He was also a cross-appointed professor at Queen's University. As an academic, he writes on the topics of genocide, human rights, political parties and elections. As a poet, he explores the issue of genocide and its impact on Armenian-Canadian identity.

Publications

• Canadian Socialism: Essays on the CCF-NDP. Oxford, Toronto, 1992
• Political Activists: The NDP in Convention. Oxford, Toronto, 1997 (coauthor)
• Party Politics in Canada, 8th edition. Pearson Education, Toronto, 2000 (coeditor)
• The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the Inertia of Indifference. Blue Heron, Kingston, 2001 (coauthor)
• Poems: Political and Philosophical. Hybrid, Winnipeg, 2002
• Ancestral Voices: Identity, Ethnic Roots and A Genocide Remembered. Hybrid, Winnipeg, 2007
• Just Poems: Reflections on the Armenian Genocide. Hybrid, Winnipeg, 2009
• Return to Armenia/Veradardz depi Hayastan. Lusakn, Yerevan, 2012
• The Armenian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2015 (editor)
• The Armenian Genocide: A Century of Remembrance and Denial

Awards

• gold medal, Ministry of Culture, Armenia, 2011
• gold medal, Writers' Union of Armenia,, 2015