M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Princeton University
Professor
Princeton, New Jersey
hanioglu@Princeton.EDU
Office:
(609) 258-5361
Bio/Research
I received my B.A. in Political Science and Economics and my Ph.D. in Political Science from Istanbul University. During my graduate years I taught late Ottoman diplomatic and political history as an instructor in the Political Science Department. I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on the political activiti...
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Bio/Research
I received my B.A. in Political Science and Economics and my Ph.D. in Political Science from Istanbul University. During my graduate years I taught late Ottoman diplomatic and political history as an instructor in the Political Science Department. I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on the political activities and thought of one of the founders of the Committee of Union and Progress, Dr. Abdullah Cevdet.
In 1981 I decided to work on the history of the Committee of Union and Progress during the period from 1889 to 1908, i.e. from its foundation to the Young Turk Revolution. Since the CUP was an underground organization, it was essential to use the organization's own papers to write its history. For this purpose I visited Albania in 1982. After examining the CUP papers there, I published the first volume of this project in 1986. the second volume appeared in 1992, to be followed by a third and final volume. Besides the original CUP documents, I have used other archival sources, including those found in the Turkish, German, Austrian, French, Swiss, Italian, Greek, and British archives.
From 1981 to the present, I have taught courses on late Ottoman political and diplomatic history, late Ottoman history, and Turkish political life, at Istanbul and Bosphorus Universities and the Turkish Naval Academy. I have also taught and conducted seminars at Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago.At Princeton I have taught NES 433 (The Near East and the Eastern Question since 1815,) NES 439 (Nationalist Movements from Bosnia to Central Asia: 19th and 20th Centuries,) NES 543, 544 (Ottoman Diplomatics: Paleography and Diplomatic Documents,) and NES 572 (Problems in Late Ottoman & Modern Republican History.)
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In 1981 I decided to work on the history of the Committee of Union and Progress during the period from 1889 to 1908, i.e. from its foundation to the Young Turk Revolution. Since the CUP was an underground organization, it was essential to use the organization's own papers to write its history. For this purpose I visited Albania in 1982. After examining the CUP papers there, I published the first volume of this project in 1986. the second volume appeared in 1992, to be followed by a third and final volume. Besides the original CUP documents, I have used other archival sources, including those found in the Turkish, German, Austrian, French, Swiss, Italian, Greek, and British archives.
From 1981 to the present, I have taught courses on late Ottoman political and diplomatic history, late Ottoman history, and Turkish political life, at Istanbul and Bosphorus Universities and the Turkish Naval Academy. I have also taught and conducted seminars at Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago.At Princeton I have taught NES 433 (The Near East and the Eastern Question since 1815,) NES 439 (Nationalist Movements from Bosnia to Central Asia: 19th and 20th Centuries,) NES 543, 544 (Ottoman Diplomatics: Paleography and Diplomatic Documents,) and NES 572 (Problems in Late Ottoman & Modern Republican History.)
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