Hakan Özoğlu

Hakan Özoğlu is the Director of Middle Eastern Studies minor and an Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. He received his PhD in History at the Ohio State University (1997), and his BA in Social Anthropology at Istanbul University (1987). From 1997 to 2007, he was on the faculty of Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago as the Endowed Ayaslı Senior Lecturer in Modern Turkish Studies. He also taught classes in different capacities for New York University, the University of Michigan, Loyola University at Chicago, and the Ohio Wesleyan University. His areas of research are Modern Turkey and Kurds.