Robert Dankoff

Robert Dankoff is Professor Emeritus of Ottoman & Turkish Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Robert Dankoff was born on 24 September 1943 in Rochester, New York. In 1964, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, and in 1971 got a Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught Arabic at Brandeis University as an assistant professor in 1969-1975. He taught Turkish in the University of California (1976-77), and the University of Arizona (1977-1979). He joined the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago in 1979 as an assistant professor, where he became an associate professor in 1982, and a professor in 1987. He taught Turkish, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Uzbek there until retiring in 2006.

His research interests lie in Ottoman Literature and Turkology. He has published extensively on Turkish texts from Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire, including text editions and translations of portions of the Seyahatname of Evliya Çelebi.

Honors

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References

  1. ↑ "Robert Dankoff - The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies". University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.
  2. ↑ Tezcan, Nuran (2012). "Robert Dankoff'un Türkolojideki yeri üzerine". Divan'dan Seyahatname'ye Robert Dankoff (in Turkish). Yapı Kredi Kültür ve Sanat Yayıncılık. pp. 17–24. hdl:11693/51991. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "The Historical Roots of Kashkaval". Balkan Insight. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  4. ↑ Hickman, Bill; Leiser, Gary, eds. (2015). "An interview with Robert Dankoff, Professor Emeritus of Turkish and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago BARBARA BLACKWELL GüLEN . PUBLICATIONS O F". Turkish Language, Literature, and History. doi:10.4324/9781315750705. ISBN 9781317612957.
  5. ↑ Tezcan, Nuran, Nuran (2012). "Ünlü Türkolog Prof. Robert Dankoff'a Onur Doktorası Verildi" (PDF). Kanat: Bilkent Üniversitesi Türk Edebiyatı Merkezi haber bülteni. Güz 2012 (40): 8. ISSN 1302-8332. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
  6. ↑ Reviews of An Ottoman Mentality:
  7. ↑ Reviews of Armenian Loanwords in Turkish:
    • As., G. (1999–2000). Iran & the Caucasus. 3/4: 426–428. JSTOR 4030816.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hetzer, Armin (1995). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 85: 355–357. JSTOR 23866202.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Schütz, Edmond (1996). Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 49 (1/2): 251–253. JSTOR 43391288.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ↑ Reviews of The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman:
  9. ↑ Reviews of Wisdom of Royal Glory: