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Kemal Karpat
Born	Kemal Karpat (1924-02-15)15 February 1924 Babadag, Tulcea, Romania
Died	February 20, 2019(2019-02-20) (aged 95) Manchester, New Hampshire
Alma mater	Istanbul University (LLB) University of Washington (MA) New York University (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)	professor and historian
Scientific career
Institutions	New York University Montana State University Bozeman Princeton University Bilkent University Middle East Technical University Ankara University Harvard University Johns Hopkins University Columbia University School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences University of Washington Istanbul Şehir University

Kemal Karpat (15 February 1924, Babadag Tulcea, Romania – 20 February 2019, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States) was a Romanian-Turkish naturalised American historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Early life

He was of Turkish origin and born in Babadag, Romania. He received his LLB from the University of Istanbul, his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from New York University. He previously worked for the UN Economics and Social Council and taught at the University of Montana (though it was called Montana State University at the time) and New York University. His final post was at Istanbul Şehir University.

Elites and Religion: From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic (Times, 2010)
The Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization (Cambridge University Press; 2009)
The Politicization of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2001)
The Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey (Brill, 2000)
Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East (Praeger, 1968)
Turkey's Politics: The Transition to a Multi-Party System (Princeton University Press, 1959)
Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey (Princeton University Press, 1964)
An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Nationalism in the Ottoman State (Princeton UP, 1973)
Social Change and Politics in Turkey (Brill Leiden, 1973)
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Transition (Brill Leiden, 1975)

Interview: "Tarihçinin Mutfağı" (in Turkish). Tarih Vakfı. 1999-09-23. Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-10-29.