Justin A. McCarthy

Justin A. McCarthy (born October 19, 1945 in Chicago ) is an American professor of history and demographer at the University of Louisville . He is considered an expert on the history and demographics of the Ottoman Empire , the history of the Balkans, and the history of the Middle East .

Life

He served in the Peace Corps in Turkey from 1967 to 1969 . During this time he lectured at various Turkish universities. McCarthy received his PhD from the University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978. He is the author of articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies , a prestigious journal on the Middle East and its history published by the Middle East Academic Society Studies Association of North America is published. McCarthy has spoken to Turkish audiences on numerous occasions and is known for his denial of the Armenian genocide . Wolfgang Gust wrote that he was putting “an academic cloak on the official Turkish fraudulent version” of the Armenian genocide .

Works

• Muslims and Minorities: The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire (December 1983, ISBN 0-8147-5390-6 hardcover)
• The Population of Palestine (1990), Institute for Palestine Studies Series. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07110-9
• Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 Darwin Press, Incorporated (March 1996), ISBN 0-87850-094-4
• The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923 (March 1997), ISBN 978-0-582-25655-2
• The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire (" Historical Endings " series) (April 2001), ISBN 978-0-340-70657-2
• Who Are the Turks ?: A Manual for Teachers (January 2003) Who Are the Turks? PDF
• The Armenian Rebellion at Van (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies) (September 2006), ISBN 0-87480-870-7

Awards

• Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity, University of Louisville , 1996
• Order of Merit, Republic of Turkey, 1998

Web links

• Armenian-Turkish Conflict, by J. McCarthy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Gust: The end of a long beginning, in: FAZ No. 94, April 23, 2010, p. 38.
2. ↑ http://louisville.edu/history/faculty/mccarthy
3. ↑ Mustafa Aydın, Çağrı Erhan, Cagri Erhan (eds.): Turkish-American Relations: Past, Present and Future . Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7146-5273-3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).