Carter Vaughn Findley is a Humanities Distinguished Professor in the History Department at

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, where he teaches the history of Islamic civilization, with emphasis on the

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and the modern

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. He is the author of several published books and more than thirty scholarly articles in

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, and

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. Findley earned his B.A. from

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and his

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from

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. He is a fellow of the

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, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the

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and the

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, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the

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, and the Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship of both the

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and the

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. He is also an Honorary Member of the

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, visiting lecturer at

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

, visiting professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and visiting member of

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. He has served as President of both the

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(1990-1992) and the World History Association (2000-2002). In 2010, he wrote ''Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007'', which a review said "promises to be the main interpretive study of the last centuries of the Ottoman Empire and of Turkey until the first decade of the twenty-first century."

Works

*(2010)
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity
" :

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. *(2010)
Twentieth-Century World
" : Wadsworth Cengage. *(2005)
The Turks in World History
" : Oxford University Press. *(1998) "An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar,1889," :

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. *(1989)
Ottoman Civil Officialdom: A Social History
" :

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. *(1980)
Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922
" :

References

External links

Ohio State University website
Living people 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers American Turkologists Harvard University alumni Scholars of Ottoman history Ohio State University faculty Yale University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American male writers Linguists from the United States Presidents of the World History Association {{US-historian-stub