Hans-Lukas Kieser

Hans-Lukas Kieser is a Swiss historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Professor of modern history at the University of Zurich. He is an author of books and articles in several languages.

He became interested in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire while studying at the University of Basel where he met refugees from the 1980 Turkish military coup. ^[1] This interest led to a PhD thesis which later was released by the Turkish publisher İletişim. ^{[1] [2]}

He has been a lecturer or invited professor at Stanford University (2010); University of Michigan (2008); and other universities including the Bamberg University, and invited scholar at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France and the Bilgi University in Turkey. ^[2] He has received a fellowship rom the Swiss National Science Foundation. ^[2]

He currently lectures as a Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. ^[3]

Awards

• 2017, Boghossian Prize for his contributions in the research of the Armenian genocide ^[4]
• 2016, Presidential Award by the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in 2016 ^[5]
• 2000, Garbis Papazian-Prize in 2000 ^[4]

Selected bibliography

• Nearest East: American millennialism and mission to the Middle East, Philadelphia, New Jersey: Temple University Press, 2010. Revised paperback edition 2012. ^[6]
• A quest for belonging. Anatolia beyond empire and nation (19th–21st centuries), Istanbul: Isis, 2007. Reprint: Piscataway N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2010.
• Vorkämpfer der “neuen Türkei”. Revolutionäre Bildungseliten am Genfersee (1868–1939) [Pioneers of the "New Turkey": Revolutionary elites at Lake Geneva], Zürich: Chronos, 2005.
• Der verpasste Friede. Mission, Ethnie und Staat in den Ostprovinzen der Türkei 1839–1938 [The squandered peace. Missionaries, ethnicity and the state in the eastern provinces of Turkey 1839–1938], Zürich: Chronos, 2000.
• (ed.)Turkey beyond nationalism: Towards post-nationalist identities, London: I. B. Tauris, 2006. Revised paperback edition 2012. ISBN   9781780763996
• Kieser, Hans-Lukas (2018). Talaat Pasha : father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide. Princeton University Press. p. 532. ISBN   978-0-691-15762-7. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]}
• (ed.) The end of the Ottomans, the Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism, I.B.Tauris, 2019. ^[16]

References

1. "Staff Profile". www.newcastle.edu.au. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2020-11-05.
2. "Prof. Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser". www.hist.uzh.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-11-05.
3. "Staff Profile". www.newcastle.edu.au. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
4. "Hans-Lukas Kieser". boghossianprize.am. Archived from the original on 2022-07-17. Retrieved 2020-11-05.
5. "Swiss historian, Agos' Armenian section's editor and a group of distinguished figures receive Presidential Awards". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2020-11-05.
6. Kieser, Hans-Lukas (2011-03-14). Hans-Lukas Kieser. ISBN   9781439902233.
7. Badem, Candan (2019). "Review of Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide". Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. 6 (1): 237–239. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.6.1.13. ISSN   2376-0699. JSTOR   10.2979/jottturstuass.6.1.13.
8. Türesay, Özgür (2019). "Talaat Pasha. Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide, written by Hans-Lukas Kieser". Studia Islamica. 114 (1): 83–89. doi:10.1163/19585705-12341392. ISSN   1958-5705. S2CID   171606243.
9. Mangold-Will, Sabine (2019). "Biography and the Myth of Leadership in History: Talaat Pasha Father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 552 pp., USD$39.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780691157627". Journal of Genocide Research. 21 (4): 556–561. doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1613829. S2CID   182427725.
10. Kurt, Ümit (2019). "Father of Modern Turkey or Father of Ittihadists?: Talaat Pasha father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 552 pp., USD$39.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691157627". Journal of Genocide Research. 21 (4): 545–550. doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1613819. S2CID   182250427.
11. Usitalo, Steven A (2019). "Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide Hans-Lukas Kieser". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 33 (3): 451–453. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcz057.
12. Melson, Robert (2018). "Review of Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide". Genocide Studies International. 12 (2): 253–256. doi:10.3138/gsi.12.2.08. ISSN   2291-1847. JSTOR   26986104. S2CID   193103555.
13. Maksudyan, Nazan (2019). ""This Is a Man's World?": On Fathers and Architects: Talaat Pasha father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 552 pp., US$39.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691157627". Journal of Genocide Research. 21 (4): 540–544. doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1613816. S2CID   181910618.
14. Üngör, Uğur Ümit (2019). "A Multi-Dimensional Contribution to Mass Violence Research Hans Lukas Kieser's Talaat Pasha: Talaat Pasha father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide, by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, 552 pp., USD$39.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691157627". Journal of Genocide Research. 21 (4): 551–555. doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1613825. S2CID   182213935.
15. Köse, Yavuz (2021). "Hans-Lukas Kieser. Talât Pascha. Gründer der modernen Türkei und Architekt des Völkermords an den Armeniern. Eine politische Biografie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Beat Rüegger. Zürich: Chronos Verlag. 2021. 439 Seiten. ISBN-13: 9783034015974". Diyâr. 2: 150–154. doi:10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-150. S2CID   237963481.
16. Kieser, Hans-Lukas; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (2019-07-11). The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   978-1788312417.