Mehmet Dosemeci is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. He received his PhD in History from Columbia University, New York. Dosemeci served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT) program at Columbia University in 2011, and as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in 2010. He has received grants from the Fulbright IIE Program and from the Middle East Studies Summer Fellowship at Columbia University. His work has been published in Contemporary European History, South European Society and Politics, the European Review of History, South East European and Middle East Studies, and the EUI Review.