10. Cemal Kafadar

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Professor of Ottoman-Turkish history, holder of the Vehbi Koç Chair in Turkish Studies at Harvard. A graduate of Robert Academy and then of Hamilton College in the US, he went on to do his PhD at McGill, and then started teaching at Princeton before moving to and getting tenure at Harvard, where he has also served for two terms as Director of Middle East Studies. Apart from his many and varied professional research interests, also known as a sensitive, insightful observer of contemporary American and Turkish politics, as well as the flows and counterflows of global and local-national cultures.