Ryan Gingeras (born 1978) is an American historian. He is a professor at the

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and a historian of the late

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. He is the author of five books, including ''Eternal Dawn: Turkey in the Age of Ataturk'' and ''Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire''. He has published on a wide variety of topics related to history and politics in such publications as Foreign Affairs, ''

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'', International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Journal, Iranian Studies, Past & Present, and War on the Rocks. Gingeras stated that he wanted to write his dissertation about

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during

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, or how Nakhichevan became part of

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, but was warned that writing about controversial topics such as

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and

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would be akin to "professional suicide".

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Ryan Gingeras@War on the Rocks
Naval Postgraduate School faculty Scholars of Ottoman history Historians of Turkey 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub