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Carter V. 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 also co-founded Ohio State's world history program.
His book, The Turks in World History, published by Oxford University Press (2005), won the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for Middle East Studies: The Al Mubarak Book Prize. His recent publications also include "An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat
Meets Madame Gülnar,1889," in The American Historical Review, February
1998.
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded him a fellowship for 2003-2004
to write a book on "Turkey's Experience with Nationalism and Modernity,"
a history of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic, from the 1780s to
the present. The Guggenheim Foundation awarded him a fellowship for 2004-2005
to complete a study on "Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Tableau général
de l'Empire othoman," the most important eighteenth-century European publication
on the Ottoman Empire.
Carter Findley has published a series of two books on administrative reform
and development in the late Ottoman Empire: Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman
Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922 and Ottoman Civil Officialdom: A
Social History (both published by Princeton University Press in 1980 and
1989). The second book won both the Ohio Academy of History Book Award and the
M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize of the Turkish Studies Association. Both books have
been translated into Turkish. Carter Findley is also the coauthor, with John
Rothney, of Twentieth-Century World (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, sixth
revised edition 2006) and has published more than thirty scholarly articles,
in English, French, and Turkish.
Carter Findley is an Honorary Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. He received the 2000 Distinguished Scholar Award from Ohio State
University, was a visiting lecturer at Bilkent University (Ankara, December 1997),
a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, May
1994), and a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1981-82).
He is a past winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
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 programs of both the U.S.Information Agency and the U.S. Department
of Education. He has served as President of both the World History Association
(2000-2002) and the Turkish Studies Association (1990-1992). He received his
B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Harvard. August 2006
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