Biography
Hakan Özoğlu is currently the Director of Middle Eastern Studies at University of Central Florida. His research interests include Kurdish identity and nationalism, emergence of Modern Turkey, Turkish-American relations during and after World War I, and power struggle in the early Turkish Republic. He is author of three monographs: Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State (SUNY Press, 2004), From Caliphate to Secular State (Praeger, 2011) and The Decline of the Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Turkish Republic: Observations of an American Diplomat (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). His publications were translated in five languages. In addition, his interviews and essays have appeared in many international media outlets including, New York Times, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, WTTW PBS Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2017-18 Fulbright Core Fellowship.