Name Carter Findley | Role Author | |
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Education Harvard University (1964–1969) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Twentieth‑century World, Turkey - Islam - Nationali, The Turks in world history, Bureaucratic reform in the Ottom, Ottoman civil officialdom | ||
Carter Findley: Capitol Hill Briefing on the Humanities, May 2013
Carter Vaughn Findley is a Humanities Distinguished Professor in the History Department at Ohio State University, where he teaches the history of Islamic civilization, with emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is the author of several published books and more than thirty scholarly articles in English, French, and Turkish.
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Findley earned his B. A. from Yale University and his Ph.D from Harvard University. He is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the Institute of Turkish Studies, and the Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship of both the U.S. Information Agency and the United States Department of Education. He is an Honorary Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, visiting lecturer at Bilkent University, visiting professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and visiting member of Institute for Advanced Study. He has served as President of both the Turkish Studies Association (1990-1992) and the World History Association (2000-2002).