Caglar Keyder

sociologist, Istanbul/Binghamton

Çağlar Keyder is Professor of Sociology at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul and SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY. His academic research focuses on the Ottoman Empire, the contemporary Middle East and Turk

Çağlar Keyder is Professor of Sociology at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul and SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY. His academic research focuses on the Ottoman Empire, the contemporary Middle East and Turkey, and on the social structure of global cities. He is co-editor of Spatial Conceptions of the Nation: Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey (2010); and Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey: Encounters with Europe, 1850–1950 (2007). Recent essays include: “A Brief History of Modern Istanbul,” The Cambridge History of Modern Turkey (2008); “Europe and the Ottoman Empire in Mid-Nineteenth Century,” East Meets West: Banking and Commerce in the Ottoman Empire, ed. Philip Cottrell (2008); and “Moving in from the Margins: Turkey in Europe,” Diogenes (May 2006). Keyder lives and works in Istanbul and Binghamton, NY. [Last updated 2010]