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

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, where he teaches the history of

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, with emphasis on the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

and the modern

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. He is the author of several published books and more than thirty scholarly articles in English, French, and Turkish. Findley earned his B.A. from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

and his Ph.D from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. He is a fellow of the

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

American Council of Learned Societies The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a private, nonprofit federation of 75 scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences founded in 1919. It is best known for its fellowship competitions which provide a ra ...

and the

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, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the Institute of Turkish Studies, 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

Turkish Academy of Sciences The Turkish Academy of Sciences ( – TÜBA) is an autonomous scholarly association aimed at promoting scientific activities in Turkey. Although it is attached to the office of the Presidency and is largely funded by the government, it maintains f ...

, visiting lecturer at

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

, 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

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(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," :

The American Historical Review ''The American Historical Review'' is a quarterly academic history journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association, for which it is an official publication. It targets readers interested in all period ...

. *(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
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