Contributors · 335include Libya between Ottomanism and Nationalism: The Ottoman Involve-
ment in Libya during the War with Italy (1911–1919) (1987) and Change
within Tradition among Jewish Women in Libya (1992).
Ömer Turan (PhD, Catholic University of Leuven) has been professor
of Ottoman and Turkish history at Middle East Technical University in
Ankara since 1997. He was a visiting professor at Princeton University
and William Paterson University in the United States, where he taught
Turkish and Ottoman history. His primary research interests concern the
Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century, the Turkish Republic in the
twentieth century, nationality and minority issues, and the historical im-
portance of Protestant missionaries. He has published several books on
these subjects, including The Turkish Minority in Bulgaria 1878–1908 (1998),
The Armenian Rebellion at Van (2006) (co-author), The Ottoman-Russian War
of 1877–78 (2007) (ed.), and entries in The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic
World, ed. Norman A. Stillman (2010).
Gökçe Yurdakul (PhD, University of Toronto) is Georg Simmel Professor
of Diversity and Social Conflict at Humboldt University, Berlin Graduate
School for Social Sciences. Her teaching and research interests include
immigration, citizenship, race and ethnicity, gender and women, focus-
ing on Turkish migrants in Germany and Islam in Europe. Dr. Yurdakul
is the author of Staatsburgerschaft, Migration, und Minderheiten: Inklusion
und Ausgrenzungsstrategien im Vergleich (2010) and From Guest Workers into
Muslims: The Transformation of Turkish Immigrant Associations in Germany
(2009) and the editor of two books: Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos (2006)
and Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on
North America and Western Europe (2007), both with Y. Michal Bodemann.
She has published articles in the Annual Review of Sociology, Ethnic and
Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, German Politics and
Society, Soziale Welt, and Violence against Women. She has just completed
a comparative project on honor killing debates in Western Europe and
North America, which is commissioned by the United Nations Research
Institute for Social Development. Currently she and Anna Korteweg are
working on a book about the headscarf debates in Western and Turkish
media and parliaments, which will be published by the Stanford Univer-
sity Press.