Deniz Balgamis
Position title: Associate Editor and Manager
Email: balgamis@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.262.4213
Address:
Office: 5268 Mosse Humanities Bldg.
Current
I lead and manage the Karpat Center, web presence, unit budget, academic events, programs, projects, grants and scholarships related to Turkish Studies; collaborate with UW units and promote the growth of Turkish Studies and Turkish Language on UW Campus and student developmental goals. I also manage all operations of the academic, peer-reviewed journal IJTS and publishes.
I taught Central Asian History courses at the UW and lectured on Central Asia and Turkey at various conferences and universities; worked at Turkish Historical Society in Ankara, Turkey.
Education
MA and PhD in History with a PhD minor in Political Science and an MLA in Library of Science from UW-Madison; BA in Russian Language and Literature from Faculty of Language, History and Geography at Ankara University, in Ankara, Turkey, with a minor in French.
Book
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Deniz Balgamis (Editor), and Kemal H. Karpat (Editor). Turkish Migration to the United States : From Ottoman Times to the Present. The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
Selected Publications
- “Kemal H. Karpat (1923-2019)” Osmanli Arastirmalari, Volume: 55, 343 – 354, 2020.
- “Kazakhstan” Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- “The New Political Institutions of Independent Kazakhstan” in CENTRAL ASIA: EMERGING NEW ORDER, ed. By K. Warikoo, New Dehli, 1995
- “Toward Democracy in Kazakhstan: Formation of Political Parties,” U.S.-KAZAKHSTAN MONITOR, Washington, D.C., 1995
Professional Affiliations
- Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA)