Hans-Lukas Kieser
{{Short description|Swiss historian}}
Hans-Lukas Kieser (born 1957){{citation needed|date=January 2021}} is a Swiss historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Professor of modern history at the University of Zurich and president of the Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey in Basel.{{cn |date=November 2022}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2015-01-16|title=Staff Profile|url=https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/hanslukas-kieser|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.newcastle.edu.au|language=en}} This interest led to a PhD thesis which later was released by the Turkish publisher İletişim.{{Cite web|title=Prof. Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser|url=https://www.hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereiche/neuzeit/privatdozierende/kieser.html|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.hist.uzh.ch|language=de}}
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. He received fellowships {{which|date=May 2012}} from academic institutions{{which|date=May 2012}} in Basel, Zurich and Freiburg (FRIAS), and from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
He currently lectures as a Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle, Australia.{{Cite web|date=2015-01-16|title=Staff Profile|url=https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/hanslukas-kieser#career|access-date=2020-09-09|website=www.newcastle.edu.au|language=en}}
Awards
- 2017, Boghossian Prize for his contributions in the research of the Armenian genocide{{Cite web|title=Hans-Lukas Kieser|url=http://boghossianprize.am/en/84|access-date=2020-11-05|website=boghossianprize.am|language=en|archive-date=2022-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717000638/https://boghossianprize.am/en/84|url-status=dead}}
- 2016, Presidential Award by the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in 2016{{Cite web|title=Swiss historian, Agos' Armenian section's editor and a group of distinguished figures receive Presidential Awards|url=https://armenpress.am/eng/news/892471|access-date=2020-11-05|website=armenpress.am|language=en}}
- 2000, Garbis Papazian-Prize in 2000
Selected bibliography
- Nearest East: American millennialism and mission to the Middle East, Philadelphia, New Jersey: Temple University Press, 2010. Revised paperback edition 2012.{{Cite book | url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/hans-lukas-kieser | title=Hans-Lukas Kieser| date=2011-03-14| isbn= 9781439902233 | last1=Kieser| first1=Hans-Lukas}}
- 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}}
- {{cite book |first=Hans-Lukas |last=Kieser |date=2018 |title=Talaat Pasha : father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide |url= |location= |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=532 |isbn=978-0-691-15762-7|title-link=Talaat Pasha : father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide }}{{cite journal |last1=Badem |first1=Candan |title=Review of Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide |journal=Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association |date=2019 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=237–239 |doi=10.2979/jottturstuass.6.1.13 |jstor=10.2979/jottturstuass.6.1.13 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jottturstuass.6.1.13 |issn=2376-0699}}{{cite journal |last1=Türesay |first1=Özgür |title=Talaat Pasha. Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide, written by Hans-Lukas Kieser |journal=Studia Islamica |date=2019 |volume=114 |issue=1 |pages=83–89 |doi=10.1163/19585705-12341392 |s2cid=171606243 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/si/114/1/article-p83_7.xml |issn=1958-5705}}{{cite journal |last1=Mangold-Will |first1=Sabine |title=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), {{text|ISBN}} 9780691157627 |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |date=2019 |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=556–561 |doi=10.1080/14623528.2019.1613829|s2cid=182427725 }}{{cite journal |last1=Kurt |first1=Ümit |title=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), {{text|ISBN:}} 9780691157627 |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |date=2019 |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=545–550 |doi=10.1080/14623528.2019.1613819|s2cid=182250427 }}{{cite journal |last1=Usitalo |first1=Steven A |title=Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide Hans-Lukas Kieser |journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies |date=2019 |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=451–453 |doi=10.1093/hgs/dcz057}}{{cite journal |last1=Melson |first1=Robert |title=Review of Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=2018 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=253–256 |doi=10.3138/gsi.12.2.08 |jstor=26986104 |s2cid=193103555 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26986104 |issn=2291-1847}}{{cite journal |last1=Maksudyan |first1=Nazan |title="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), {{text|ISBN:}} 9780691157627 |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |date=2019 |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=540–544 |doi=10.1080/14623528.2019.1613816|s2cid=181910618 }}{{cite journal |last1=Üngör |first1=Uğur Ümit |title=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), {{text|ISBN:}} 9780691157627 |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |date=2019 |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=551–555 |doi=10.1080/14623528.2019.1613825|s2cid=182213935 }}{{cite journal |last1=Köse |first1=Yavuz |title=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. {{text|ISBN-13:}} 9783034015974. |journal=Diyâr |date=2021 |volume=2 |pages=150–154 |doi=10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-150 |s2cid=237963481 |url=https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2625-9842-2021-1-150/hans-lukas-kieser-talat-pascha-gruender-der-modernen-tuerkei-und-architekt-des-voelkermords-an-den-armeniern-eine-politische-biografie-aus-dem-englischen-uebersetzt-von-beat-rueegger-zuerich-chronos-verlag-2021-439-seiten-isbn-13-9783034015974-volume-2-2021-issue-1}}
- (ed.) The end of the Ottomans, the Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism, I.B.Tauris, 2019.{{Cite book|last1=Kieser|first1=Hans-Lukas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PnYuQEACAAJ|title=The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism|last2=Anderson|first2=Margaret Lavinia|last3=Bayraktar|first3=Seyhan|last4=Schmutz|first4=Thomas|date=2019-07-11|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1788312417|language=en}}
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