Şevket Pamuk
Şevket Pamuk (* 1950 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish economist and economic historian .
Life
Pamuk attended the American Robert College in Istanbul until 1968 . He then studied at Yale University ( BA and B.Sc. 1972) and at the University of California, Berkeley ( MA 1974). In 1978 he earned a Ph.D. in economics.
He then taught at various universities in Turkey and the USA (Princeton, Michigan, Northwestern, Villanova, Pennsylvania). In 1994 he became a professor at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, which he headed from 1998 to 2001, and at the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi in Istanbul. From 2008 to 2013 he was Professor and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He has been a Fellow of the Economic Research Forum in Cairo since 2006 and of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London since 2012 . In 1992 he became a member of the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social Science Research Council and Social Science Research Council. From 1993 he headed the Historical Statistics Project at the State Institute of Statistics of Turkey. From 1996 to 2003 he was a member of the Board of Directors of TESEV . From 1999 to 2011 he was a full member of the Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi (intervention of the Turkish government). From 1998 to 2006 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association. From 2003 to 2005 he was President of the European Historical Economics Society, previously a member of the Board of Trustees. In 1999 he became a member of the Standing Committee on the Humanities of the European Science Foundation .
Pamuk was or is a member of numerous editorial boards such as The Journal of Economic History, International Journal of Turkish Studies , European Review of Economic History, International Journal of Middle East Studies and New Perspectives on Turkey .
He is the author of numerous books on economic history, some of them excellent.
Pamuk is the brother of Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize for Literature .
Awards
- 1992: Mustafa Parlar Research Achievement Award for Young Social Scientists
- 1999: Sedat Simavi Award from the Turkish Journalists' Association
- 2001: Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies from the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
- 2002: Fuat Köprülü Award from the Turkish Studies Association of North America
- 2002: Thomas H. Cole Prize from the American Economic History Association
Web links
- Sevket Pamuk in the Research Papers in Economics database
- Şevket Pamuk at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
- Şevket Pamuk at the Academia Europaea
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pamuk, Şevket |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |