Carter Findley
Humanities Distinguished Professor
History
238 Dulles Hall
614.292.5404
findley.1@osu.edu
Education
B.A., Yale University (1963)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1969)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Findley's area of focus is 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.
Selected Publications
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789-2007 (Yale University Press, forthcoming)
"The Tanzimat," in Cambridge History of Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
The Turks in World History (Oxford University Press, 2005)
"An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar, 1889" (American Historical Review, 1998)
Ottoman Civil Officialdom: A Social History (Princeton University Press, 1989)
Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922 (Princeton University Press, 1980)
Twentieth-Century World, with John Rothney (Houghton Mifflin, 6th rev. ed., 2006)
More than 30 scholarly articles, in English, French, and Turkish
Honors, Awards, and Service
British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for Middle East Studies: The Al Mubarak Book Prize for The Turks in World History (2005)
Honorary Member, Turkish Academy of Sciences (elected 2005)
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for "Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Tableau général de l'Empire othoman," the most important eighteenth-century European publication on the Ottoman Empire (2004-05)
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for "Turkey's Experience with Nationalism and Modernity," a history of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic from the 1780s to the present (2003-04)
President, World History Association (2000-02)
Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University (2000)
President, Turkish Studies Association (1990-92)
Mershon Project
Turkey: Islam, Nationalism and Modernity
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