Halil Berktay: Biographical Note

HALIL BERKTAY, BA-MA (Economics), Yale 1968; Ph. D. (History), Birmingham (UK), 1980. Associate Professor, History Department, Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey); assistant-director of the Ataturk Institute at the same university. A research affiliate of the CES and the CMES at Harvard through Jan-Dec 1997. Research specialty: the historical imagination of Turkish nationalism, particularly as it pertains to narrations of the Ottoman past. Previous books: Republican Ideology and Fuat Koprulu, From Tribe to Feudalism (both in Turkish); New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History (co-edited with Suraiya Faroqhi). Current focus on the crisis of 1908-1922 and the construction of Turkish national memory, as part of an effort to rethink the Kemalist Revolution in comparative perspective.