Doğan Gürpınar is a professor at Istanbul Technical University. His research interests include late Ottoman and Turkish intellectual history, historiography, and cultural history. He has published extensively in both English and Turkish. His books in English include Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy: A Political, Social and Cultural History of the Ottoman Foreign Ministry; Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860–1950; Conspiracy Nation: Conspiracy Theories in Turkey; and The Intellectual Order of Islamism and Populism. His books in Turkish explore themes of intellectual and cultural histories of modern Turkey, from personal names and moustaches to cultural wars and the history of liberalism in Turkey.

• Introduction 1. The beginnings of Turkish academia: Kemalism, Cold War, and modernization 2. The golden age of independent academia? (1960–1980) 3. The rise of the Higher Education Board (YÖK) and the post-1980 order 4. Conservative ascendancy in academia 5. "White Turks," the "establishment," the myth of academia as an ivory tower, and cultural wars over the universities 6. Transformations in Turkish scholarship on modern Turkey and the late Ottoman Empire 7. The Turkish historical craft and the Ottoman Empire

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