Peter Benjamin Golden (born 1941) is an American historian who is
Professor Emeritus
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of
History
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, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at
Rutgers University
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. He has written many books and articles on
Turkic and
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, such as ''An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples''.
Golden grew up in New York and attended
Music & Art High School. He graduated from
CUNY
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Queens College
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in 1963, before obtaining his
M.A.
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and
Ph.D.
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in History from
Columbia University
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in 1968 and 1970, respectively. Golden also studied at the
Dil ve Tarih – Coğrafya Fakültesi (School of Language and History – Geography) in Ankara (1967–1968). He taught at Rutgers University from 1969 until his retirement in 2012. He was Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program (2008–2011) at Rutgers. He is an honorary member of the
Türk Dil Kurumu
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and
Kőrösi Csoma Society {{Unreferenced, date=April 2008
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of Hungarian Orientalists and was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the
Institute for Advanced Study
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(Princeton) 2005–2006. In 2019, he was elected an Honorary Member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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.
Works
*(1980) ''Khazar studies: An Historico-philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars'', Budapest:
Akadémiai Kiadó
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*(1992) ''An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples: Ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East'', Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz Verlag
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.
*(1998) ''Nomads and sedentary societies in medieval Eurasia'', Washington, D. C.:
American Historical Association
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.
*(2000) The King's Dictionary. ''The Rasulid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol'', Leiden:
Brill Publishers
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. (Book, Edited, Vol. 4 in the series Handbuch der Orientalistik, 8. Abteilung Zentralasien)
*(2003) ''Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs'', Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate Publishing
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.
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*(2007) ''The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives'', co-edited with H. Ben-Shammai and A. Róna-Tas. Leiden:
Brill Publishers
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.
*(2009) ''The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age,'' co-edited with N. Di Cosmo, A.J. Frank, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
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*(2010) ''Turks and Khazars: Origins, Institutions, and Interactions in Pre-Mongol Eurasia'', Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate Publishing
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.
*(2011) ''Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes'', Bucharest–Brăila: Editura Academiei Române – Muzeul Brăilei Editura Istros
*(2011) ''Central Asia in World History'', Oxford-New York:
Oxford University Press
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Festschrift
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See also
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Euro-Asian Steppe
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References
External links
Rutgers faculty websiteCurriculum vitae
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Living people
21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
American Turkologists
Khazar studies
Historians of Central Asia
1941 births
21st-century American male writers