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Dr. Justin A. McCarthy is an American demographer, Ottoman Empire expert, and tenured history professor at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an expert in Balkans, Balkan history, Middle East, and Middle Eastern history.
Justin McCarthy got his Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978. His Post-Doctoral Certificate is from the "Office Of Population Research" at Princeton University.
He was awarded the Order of Merit of Turkey by the President of Turkey in 1998 and he got his Honorary Doctorate at Süleyman Demirel University in Turkey.
Prof. McCarthy is an author of many books and articles, including in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
McCarthy is known for his controversial challenge of the view that the massacres of Ottoman Armenians during the empire's decline constituted a genocide. He was also one of four scholars who participated in a debate hosted by PBS over the veracity of the genocide.
Bibliography
- Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 Darwin Press, Incorporated (March 1996), ISBN 0-87850-094-4
- The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire ("Historical Endings" series) (April 2001)
- The Ottoman Turks : An Introductory History to 1923 (March 1997)
- The Armenian Rebellion at Van (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies) (September 2006)
- Muslims and Minorities: The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire (December 1983, ISBN 0-8147-5390-6 hardcover)
- Who Are the Turks?: A Manual for Teachers (January 2003) Who Are the Turks? PDF
- The Population of Palestine (1990)
References
- http://php.louisville.edu/advancement/ocm/expertsource/expertdetails.php?fname=Justin&lname=McCarthy
- Template:Nl icon Zwaan, Ton (June 14, 2005). "McCarthy is beroepsontkenner". de Volkskrant.
- "A PBS Documentary Makes Its Case for the Armenian Genocide, With or Without a Debate". The New York Times. April 17, 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-02.