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Peter B. Golden
Professor Emeritus and
Academic Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (New Brunswick)
Rutgers

Ph.D., Columbia

Lucy Stone Hall B-316
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone: (732) 445-8444 x18
Fax: 973-353-1193
E-mail: pgolden@andromeda.rutgers.edu



Research and Teaching Interests

The history of medieval Eurasia and the interaction of the Turko-Mongolian steppe peoples with the neighboring sedentary states (Rus', Byzantium, the Caucasus, and the Islamic world). Ethnogenesis. Turkic philology.


Classes

Undergraduate
Graduate

Ottoman Empire (21:510:338)

History of Islamnic Civilization (21:510:287, 288)

The History of Iran (21:510:337)

History of the Modern Middle East (History 21:510:361)

Problems and Readings in Medieval History

Colloquium in Comparative History-Islamic Civilization (New Brunswick)



Selected Publications

Central Asia (New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Nomads and Their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs in Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2003).

Türk Halklari Tarihine Giris, (Turk. Trans.by O. Karatay (Ankara: KaraM, 2002), a Turkish translation of my An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992).

The King's Dictionary. The Rasûlid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongolian, edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Peter B. Golden, translated by T. Halasi-Kun, P.B. Golden, L. Ligeti, Ö. Schütz,with essays by P.B. Golden and Th. T. Allsen (Leiden: Brill, 2000).


Honors, Awards, and Professional Service

Member of the Institute For Advanced Study (Princeton), 2005-2006.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2001.

Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, 1994.

Honorary Member, Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Society), elected 1989.