Hans-Lukas Kieser (born 1957) is a Swiss historian of the late

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and Turkey, Professor of modern history at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

and president of the Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey in

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. He is an author of books and articles in several languages. He became interested in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire while studying at the

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ...

where he met refugees from the 1980 Turkish militaryz coup . This interest led to a PhD thesis which later was released by the Turkish publisher İletişim. He has been a lecturer or invited professor at Stanford University (2010);

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

(2008); and other universities including the Bamberg University, and invited scholar at the

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in Paris, France and the Bilgi University in Turkey. He received fellowships from academic institutions in

, Zurich and

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

(FRIAS), and from the

Swiss National Science Foundation The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, German: ''Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung'', SNF; French: ''Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique'', FNS; Italian: ''Fondo nazionale svizzero ...

. He currently lectures as a Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Awards

* 2017, Boghossian Prize for his contributions in the research of the

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* 2016, Presidential Award by the

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n President

Serzh Sargsyan Serzh Azati Sargsyan ( hy, Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան, ; born 30 June 1954)Of ...

in 2016 * 2000, Garbis Papazian-Prize in 2000

Selected bibliography

* '' Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide'', Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. * ''Nearest East: American millennialism and mission to the Middle East'', Philadelphia, New Jersey: Temple University Press, 2010. Revised paperback edition 2012. * ''A quest for belonging. Anatolia beyond empire and nation (19th–21st centuries)'', Istanbul: Isis, 2007. Reprint: Piscataway N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2010. * ''Vorkämpfer der “neuen Türkei”. Revolutionäre Bildungseliten am Genfersee (1868–1939)'' ioneers of the "New Turkey": Revolutionary elites at Lake Geneva Zürich: Chronos, 2005. * ''Der verpasste Friede. Mission, Ethnie und Staat in den Ostprovinzen der Türkei 1839–1938'' he squandered peace. Missionaries, ethnicity and the state in the eastern provinces of Turkey 1839–1938 Zürich: Chronos, 2000. * (ed.)''Turkey beyond nationalism: Towards post-nationalist identities'', London: I. B. Tauris, 2006. Revised paperback edition 2012. * *(ed.) ''The end of the Ottomans, the Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism,'' I.B.Tauris, 2019.

References

Scholars of Ottoman history Historians of Turkey 20th-century Swiss historians Swiss male writers University of Zurich faculty Stanford University Department of History faculty University of Michigan faculty 1957 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers {{Switzerland-historian-stub