Carter Vaughn Findley is a Humanities Distinguished Professor in the History Department atOhio State University, where he teaches the history ofIslamic civilization, with emphasis on theOttoman Empire and the modernMiddle East. He is the author of several published books and more than thirty scholarly articles inEnglish,French, andTurkish.

Findley earned hisB.A. fromYale University and hisPh.D fromHarvard University. He is a fellow of theNational Endowment for the Humanities, theGuggenheim Foundation, the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of theAmerican Council of Learned Societies and theSocial Science Research Council, the American Research Institute in Turkey, theInstitute of Turkish Studies, and theFulbright-Hays Research Fellowship of both theU.S. Information Agency and theUnited States Department of Education. He is also an Honorary Member of theTurkish Academy of Sciences,^[1] visiting lecturer atBilkent University, visiting professor atEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and visiting member ofInstitute for Advanced Study. He has served as President of both theTurkish Studies Association (1990-1992)^[2] and theWorld History Association (2000-2002).

In 2010, he wroteTurkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007, which a review said "promises to be the main interpretive study of the last centuries of the Ottoman Empire and of Turkey until the first decade of the twenty-first century."^[3]

• (2010) "Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity," :Yale University Press.
• (2010) "Twentieth-Century World," :Wadsworth Cengage.
• (2005) "The Turks in World History," : Oxford University Press.
• (1998) "An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar,1889," :The American Historical Review.
• (1989) "Ottoman Civil Officialdom: A Social History," :Princeton University Press.
• (1980) "Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922," :Princeton University Press.

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