Roderic H.

Davison

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Roderic H. Davison (April 27, 1917 – March 23, 1996) was an American historian of the Middle East
who taught at George Washington University from 1947 to 1993.[1] He served as president of the
Middle East Studies Association and the Turkish Studies Association, and as treasurer of the
American Historical Association.[2]

Contents

1 Life

2 Books

3 Further reading

4 References

Life

Born in Buffalo, New York, the son of an academic at Robert College, Davison grew up in Istanbul. He
graduated from Princeton University in 1937 and gained a masters and PhD in history from Harvard
University. In 1947 he began teaching courses at George Washington University, on Near Eastern
and European diplomatic history and on the Ottoman Empire for over 40 years. Becoming professor
in 1954, he retired in 1993.[2]

Davison died of respiratory illness on March 23, 1996, at Sibley Memorial Hospital.[2]

Books

Reform in the Ottoman Empire 1856–1876, Gordian Press (June 1973), ISBN 978-0-87752-135-8

Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774–1923, Saqi Books (2001), ISBN 978-0-86356-324-9

Turkey: A Short History, The Eothen Press (1998), ISBN 978-0-906719-22-0

Roderic H. Davison (1948). "The Armenian Crisis, 1912–1914". The American Historical Review. Vol.
53, No. 3. The American Historical Review. Vol. 53. NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 481–505. JSTOR
1840566.

Further reading

D. Mehmet BURAK.Prof. Dr. Roderick Davison