Professor Çetinsaya graduated from the School of Political Sciences at Ankara University in 1985, where he also received his MA in 1988. He completed his PhD at the University of Manchester’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies in 1994. Çetinsaya worked in the Public Administration Department at Hacettepe University (1994-2001), and in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Istanbul Technical University (2002-2008). He has also worked as a visiting professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Summer 2001), Institute for Turcology at the Free University of Berlin (Summer 2004), and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC, 2007-2008). His PhD dissertation, later published as Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908 (London: Routledge, 2006), won the Malcolm H. Kerr Best PhD Dissertation in Social Sciences Award of MESA in 1994, and the Leigh Douglas Best PhD Dissertation Award of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) in 1995. Prof. Çetinsaya’s areas of interest include Ottoman/Turkish history and politics (19th and 20th centuries), Middle Eastern history and politics (19th and 20th centuries), and Turkish foreign policy. Prof. Çetinsaya currently serves as the Rector of Istanbul Şehir University.