Nora Lessersohn is a historian of the United States and the world, with a focus on US-Ottoman relations and the lives of Armenian Americans. She earned her PhD in history from University College London in 2023, writing a dissertation on the life and work of Christopher Oscanyan (1818-95). In 2021-22, she was a Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of American History. She earned her AB in the study of religion at Harvard College and her AM in Middle Eastern studies at Harvard University. Her work has been published in the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Memory Studies, and Comparative Studies in Society and History.