Alan Whitehorn is an emeritus professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. He received his BA (York University, Toronto) in Political Science & History and his MA and PhD (Carleton University, Ottawa) in political science. In the mid-seventies, he served as the research director on the David Lewis memoirs at the Institute of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. From 1978 to 2011 he was a professor of political science at RMC in Kingston, Ontario. In the mid-1990s, he was the first holder of the JS Woodsworth Chair in Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was also a cross-appointed professor at Queen's University, Kingston. As an academic, he writes on the topics of genocide, human rights, political parties and elections. As an award-winning poet, he explores the issue of genocide and its impact on Armenian-Canadian identity. Amongst his publications are chapters in a number of Canadian Election  volumes, entries in the Canadian Encyclopedia, chapters in several books on conflict in the South Caucasus and editing an encyclopedia on the Armenian Genocide. His poetry has been translated into several languages including Armenian, Italian and German.