Robert Dankoff is Professor Emeritus of Ottoman & Turkish Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.[1]
Robert Dankoff was born on 24 September 1943 in Rochester, New York. In 1964, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, and in 1971 got a Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught Arabic at Brandeis University as an assistant professor in 1969-1975. He taught Turkish in the University of California (1976-77), and the University of Arizona (1977-1979). He joined the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Chicago University in 1979 as an assistant professor, where he became an associate professor in 1982, and a professor in 1987. He taught Turkish, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azeri, and Uzbek there until retiring in 2006.[2]
His research interests lie in Ottoman Literature and Turcology.[3] He has published extensively on Turkish texts from Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire, including text editions and translations of portions of the Seyahatname of Evliya Çelebi.[4]
- ^ "Robert Dankoff - The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies". University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.
- ^ Tezcan, Nuran (2012). "Robert Dankoff'un Türkolojideki yeri üzerine". Divan'dan Seyahatname'ye Robert Dankoff (in Turkish). Yapı Kredi Kültür ve Sanat Yayıncılık. pp. 17–24. hdl:11693/51991. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ "The Historical Roots of Kashkaval". Balkan Insight. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ^ Hickman, Bill; Leiser, Gary, eds. (2015). "An interview with Robert Dankoff, Professor Emeritus of Turkish and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago BARBARA BLACKWELL GüLEN . PUBLICATIONS O F". Turkish Language, Literature, and History. doi:10.4324/9781315750705. ISBN 9781317612957.