Kemal Karpat

Kemal Karpat is a Turkish historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is of Crimean Tatar origin and was born in Medgidia, Romania. He received his LLB from the University of Istanbul, his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from New York University. He has previous worked for the UN Economics and Social Council and taught at Montana State University and New York University.

elected publications

*"The Politicization of Islam" (Oxford University Press, 2001)
*"The Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey" (Brill, 2000)
*"Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East" (Praeger, 1968)
*"Turkey's Politics: The Transition to a Multi-Parti System" (Princeton University Press, 1959)
*"Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey" (Princeton University Press, 1964)
*"An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Nationalism in the Ottoman State" (Princeton UP, 1973)
*"Social Change and Politics in Turkey" (Brill Leiden, 1973)
*"Turkey's Foreign Policy in Transition" (Leiden, 1975)

External links

* [http://www.mesp.wisc.edu/faculty/karpat.htm Faculty profile]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4094873.stm Article for the BBC]