Nur Bilge Criss (BA, Ankara University; MA, University of Florida; PhD, The George Washington University) is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and Editorial Board Member of such journals as Turkish Studies and The Middle East Review of International Affairs. She is the author of Istanbul Under Allied Occupation, 1918–1923, and Atatürk’s Legacy; co-editor of Studies in Atatürk’s Turkey: The American Dimension with George Harris; and co-author, with Metin Heper, of the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Turkey.
Selçuk Esenbel is Professor of Modern Japanese History in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. After growing up in the United States, Turkey, and Japan, she earned her PhD in Japanese History from Columbia University, New York. Her recent publications include Japan, Turkey, and the World of Islam (Brill Global Oriental, 2011), Even the Gods Rebel (Association for Asian Studies Monographs, 1998), and The Rising Sun and the Turkish Crescent (with Inaba Chiharu; Boğaziçi University Press, 2003).
Tony Greenwood was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in Baltimore and Istanbul. He has lived most of his adult life in Turkey. After graduating from Robert College, Dr Greenwood earned a BA in History at Harvard University and a PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He has been teaching part time in the History Department of Boğaziçi University since 1983, and has been the Director of the Istanbul branch of the American Research Institute of Turkey since 1982.
Louis Mazzari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of Southern Modernist (Louisiana State University Press, 2006) and has written a new introduction to a 1936 study of the American South, Preface to Peasantry, republished in University of South Carolina Press’s Southern Classics Series. He was a primary contributor to The Encyclopedia of New England (Yale University Press, 2005) and has edited journals including the Harvard Educational Review.
