Levon Marashlian

Levon Marashlian (; born December 18, 1948) is an American historian, professor, and scholar. His scholarly work has largely focused on Armenian, Russian, and Middle-Eastern history. He has participated in various debates, lectures, and conferences throughout the world. He is currently a professor of history at Glendale Community College.

Life Of Armenian descent, Marashlian was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1948, and relocated to Chicago, Illinois, in 1956. During the Vietnam War, Marashlian served in the 82nd Airborne Division (United States) as an infantryman from 1968-69. He noted that, "Those who today deny the Armenian Genocide are resorting to academically unsound revisionism."

Marashlian was instrumental in bringing about the Armenian Genocide curriculum in California public schools when serving as an adviser to the California Department of Education Curriculum Committee in 1987. In 1990, Marashlian also participated in an academic debate in Ankara, Turkey which dealt with the issue of the Armenian genocide and Turkish-Armenian relations.

Marashlian's writings and opinions have been featured in several newspapers throughout the world including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, The Jewish Daily Forward, Houston Chronicle, Hurriyet Daily News, and others.

Works Politics and Demography: Armenians, Turks and Kurds in the Ottoman Empire. Zoryan Institute. (1991) "Finishing the Genocide: Cleansing Turkey of Armenian Survivors, 1920-1923," in Richard Hovannisian, ed., Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide (Detroit, 1998)