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I am a product of the free educational system provided by the City of New York in its bygone days -- I went to Stuyvesant High School and CCNY, graduating in 1953 with a major in Russian and Russian History, and varsity letters in fencing and lacrosse. On the advice of my teacher, Hans Kohn, I came to Princeton as a graduate student to study Persian, but I soon found the field of Turkish studies embodied in the person of my mentor Lewis V. Thomas much more attractive. I was the first student in the program in European and Near Eastern History, a degree program initiated by the late Cyril E. Black. I joined the faculty in 1958 and for the next five years taught half time in the History Department and half time in Oriental Languages and Literatures, the predecessor of this department. My early research brought the process of prosopography into Ottoman studies, and I have taught courses on how to use the computer in historical research. My work has also been in institutional history, and most recently, following my psychoanalytic training in New York at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, I have been working on bringing the insights of psychoanalysis into the field of Turkish studies. In collaboration with Dr. Vamik Volkan of the University of Virginia Medical School, I wrote a psychological biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and together we have recently finished one on Richard M. Nixon, working with a former undergraduate of mine, Andrew Dod. Currently, my teaching includes the graduate seminar on Ottoman History and second year modern Turkish. I have recently taught a freshman seminar on the concept of empire, a senior seminar on psychobiography, and another graduate seminar on the use of the computer in historical research. It has been my privilege to have had as students many of the leading young Ottomanists in the field, including Cornell Fleischer, Karl Barbir, Engin Akarli, and Metin Kunt. I have also worked with some rather intelligent and hard-working professional army officers, including Colonel William Diehl. Representative publications: The Immortal Ataturk, Chicago 1984Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition, Chicago 1972, 1980Neighbors in Conflict: A Psycho-political Study of Greek-Turkish Relations, Eothen Press, 1994.
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