Howard Eissenstat Assistant Professor Address: 333 Fahy Hall
Phone: (973) 275-2207
E-mail: eissenho@shu.edu Howard Eissenstat joined the history department in September 2006 as the department’s specialist in the history of the Middle East. His research focuses on the transformation of identities at the end of the Ottoman Empire and the nature of early Turkish nationalism. He has also done work on popular violence in the early Turkish Republic and the role of Muslim émigrés from the Russian Empire in the development of Turkish nationalism. In addition to his teaching and research activities, Professor Eissenstat also serves as a Turkey Country Specialist for Amnesty International – USA.
Education
- Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 2007
- M.A., SUNY Albany, 1988
- B.A., SUNY Albany, 1984
Courses at Seton Hall
- HIST 1101 World History I
- HIST 1201 Western Civ I
- HIST 1202 Western Civ II
- HIST 2268 The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
- HIST 4173 Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- HIST 4174 History of Modern Iran (Topics)
Awards, grants and fellowships
- Turkish Studies Association Stanley N. Fisher Prize, 2003.
- Honorable Mention, Turkish Studies Association Stanley N. Fisher Prize, 2001
- ISOP Fieldwork Fellowship, 2000-2001
- UCLA History Department Pre-dissertation Fellowship, 2000 – 2001
- Gastwissenschaftler, (Guest Researcher) Orient Institut der DMG, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000-2002
- Fulbright-Hayes Fellow, 1999-2000
- American Research Institute in Turkey – Near and Middle East Research Training Act Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 1999-2000
Representative Publications
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Erken Dönem Türk Milliyetçiliginde Irkçi Düsünce,” Ahmet Aksit, trans., Toplumsal Tarih, no. 165, (September, 2007), 46 – 53.
“Metaphors of Race and Discourse of Nation: Racial Theory and the Beginnings of Nationalism in the Turkish Republic,” in Paul Spickard, Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World, (New York: Routledge, 2005), 239-256.
“Turkic Immigrants/Turkish Nationalism: Opportunities and Limitations of a Nationalism in Exile,” in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin Vol 25(2) & Vol 26(1), February 2003, 25-50.
Review Articles:
“History and Historiography: Politics and Memory in the Turkish Republic” in Contemporary European History Vol 12(1) February 2003, 93-105.
Encyclopedia Articles:
“Adana,” “Ankara,” “Circassian,” and “Izmir” in David Levinson and
Karen Christensen, et al., eds. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (NewYork: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002).
"Ottoman Empire and Nationalism," "Türkes, Alparslan," and "Sun Language Theory" in The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, Alexander Motyl, ed. (San Diego: Academic Press, 2000)
Book Reviews:
Review of A. Holly Shissler’s Between Two Empires: Ahmet Agaoglu and the New Turkey, Turkish Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, (September, 2006).
Review of film, In the Morning, H-Gender-Mideast Reviews, H-Net Reviews, July, 2006.
Review of Hugh Poulton’s Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 39 (2), December, 2005, 262 – 263.
Review of Kemal Karpat’s The Politicization of Islam in Turkish Studies Vol. 4(3), Autumn, 2003, 199-200.
Review of Douglas A. Howard’s The History of Turkey in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin Vol. 36(2) Winter 2002, 229-231.
Review of Hugh Poulton’s Top Hat, Grey Wolf and Crescent: Turkish Nationalism and the Turkish Republic, in Turkish Studies 2/2 (Fall, 2001)
Translations:
Kemal Can, “Youth, Turkism, and the Extreme Right: The ‘Idealist Hearths’,” in Stefanos Yerasimos, Günter Seufert, Karin Vorhoff, eds., Civil Society in the Grip of Nationalism: Studies on Political Culture in Contemporary Turkey, (Istanbul: Orient-Institut der DMG, 2000).
