Halil Berktay
| Halil Berktay | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 27, 1947 |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Fields | Turkish history |
| Institutions |
Sabanci University, Ankara University, Middle East Technical University, Harvard University |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Birmingham University |
Halil Berktay is a Turkish historian at Sabancı University and columnist for the daily Taraf.
Berktay was born into an intellectual Turkish Communist family. His father, Erdogan Berktay, was a member of the old clandestine Communist Party of Turkey. As a result of this influence, Halil Berktay remained a Maoist for two decades, before becoming "an independent left-intellectual".
After graduating from Robert College in 1964, Berktay studied economics at Yale University receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and Master of Arts in 1969. He went on to earn a PhD from Birmingham University in 1990. He worked as lecturer at Ankara University between 1969–1971 and 1978–1983. He took part in the founding of the Yale chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society.
Between 1992–1997, he taught at both the Middle East Technical University and Boğaziçi University. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 1997, and taught at Sabancı University before returning to Harvard in 2006.
Berktay's research areas are the history and historiography of Turkish nationalism in the 20th century. He studies social and economic history (including that of Europe, and especially medieval history) from a comparative perspective. He has also written on the construction of Turkish national memory.
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