EDWARD PARLIAMENT KOHN
Department of History, FEASS
Bilkent University
06800 Bilkent, Ankara Turkey
kohn@bilkent.edu.tr
WORK EXPERIENCE
Chair
Bilkent University
Department of American Culture and Literature. Responsibilities include managing
budget, leading searches for new staff, implementing curriculum change, and being
liaison between department and adminstration.
Assistant Professor
Bilkent University
Academic year 2003-present
Ankara, Turkey
Seventh year of appointment at English-language research university. Specialty is late
nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. politics and foreign relations. Teaching both
graduates and undergraduates, and supervising masters and doctoral research.
Assistant Professor
Academic years 2000-03
Full-time appointment to teach American History.
McGill University
Montréal, Canada
OTHER UNIVERSITY RESPONSIBILITIES
Acting Chair
Frequently asked to serve as chair of the Department of History during the chair’s
absence, including leading searches for new faculty members.
Acting Dean
Bilkent University
Frequently asked to serve as acting dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Letters in the
dean’s absence, including attending meetings of the University Council.
EDUCATION
McGill University
Montréal, Canada
Received Ph.D. in History, May 2000.
Thesis: “’This Kindred People’: Canadian-American Relations and North American
Anglo-Saxonism During the Anglo-American Rapprochement, 1895-1903.”
Victoria University
Wellington NZ
Received M.A. in History, November 1991, while on Fulbright Scholarship.
Harvard University
Received B.A. in History, June 1990.
Cambridge, MA
ACADEMIC AWARD
Fulbright Scholarship
February-November
1991
Renowned international scholarship for study abroad. Completed Master’s degree in New
Zealand.
TEACHING AWARD
Robert Vogel Award
Received: April 2002
Proud to be first recipient of annual award from History Students’ Association
recognizing “excellence in teaching.”
PUBLIC RECOGNITION
Top Young Historian
July 2007
Named “Top Young Historian” by History New Network. Extensive profile, excerpts
from reviews of my book, student evaluations and photo at www.hnn.us.
Certificate of Appreciation
December 2005
Turkish Military Academy: “In recognition of the enhancement of the cadets’
knowledge on History of War.”
PAPERS/PRESENATIONS GIVEN
Presentations related to book Hot Time in the Old Town, summer 2010-spring 2012 :
Milner Library, Illinois State University Public Lecture
Illinois State University History Seminar
Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
92Y Tribeca, New York
New York Public Library
John Gable Lecture, Friends of Sagamore Hill/Theodore Roosevelt Association
Bilkent University Library Lunchtime Lecture
History of Food Symposium, Bilkent University
April 2010
“There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Theodore Roosevelt’s Anti-Saloon Crusade in
New York, 1895-96.”
TOBB Turkiye Egitim Sektor Meclisi
“Freedom and Flexibility: Funding American Higher Education”
April 2009
Conference on New York State History
“New York’s Killer Heat Wave of 1896”
June 2007
American Studies Association of Turkey Conference
December 2005
“Conspiracy Theories and Teaching American History in Turkey”
Conference on New York State History
June 2005
“A Revolting State of Affairs: Theodore Roosevelt and the 1884 City Investigating
Committee”
American Studies Association of Turkey Conference
October 2004
"All Hat, No Cattle: 100 Years of American Presidents Depicted as Cowboys in Foreign
Political Cartoons"
Bilkent University Department of History Conference
May 2004
"New York! Hip, Hip, Hooray!: The Urban Identity of Theodore Roosevelt"
Hacettepe University Department of American Culture and Literature May 2004
"Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of the American Cowboy"
Association of Canadian Studies in the United States Conference
November 1999
“‘A Thankless Business’: The Unhappy Unofficial Diplomacy of John Charlton, 18921903”
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
“‘Evet We Can’: President Barack Obama’s Visit to Turkey and the State of TurkishAmerican Relations,” Passport, September 2009.
“A Revolting State of Affairs: Theodore Roosevelt’s Aldermanic Bill and the New York
Assembly City Investigating Committee of 1884.” American Nineteenth Century History,
March 2009.
“Scourge of Summer,” New York Archives, Summer 2008.
“A Necessary Defeat: Theodore Roosevelt and the New York Mayoral Election of 1886,”
New York History, Spring 2006.
“Crossing the Rubicon: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the 1884
Republican National Convention,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 5, 1,
January 2006.
“‘The Member from Michigan’: The Political Isolation and Unofficial Diplomacy of John
Charlton, 1892-1903,” Canadian Historical Review, June 2001.
Book Chapters
“Theodore Roosevelt’s Early Political Career: The Making of an Independent
Republican and Urban Progressive,” in Serge Ricard, ed., Companion to Theodore
Roosevelt, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
“Pride and Prejudice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Childhood Connection to Europe,” in Hans
Krabbendam and John M. Thompson, eds., America’s Transatlanitc Turn: Theodore
Roosevelt and the “Discovery” of Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Books
The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886. SUNY Press (forthcoming).
Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt. Basic Books, 2013.
Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt.
Basic Books, July 2010.
This Kindred People: Canadian-American Relations and the Anglo-Saxon Idea, 1895-1903
McGill-Queen’s University Press, December 2004.
Book Reviews
Review essay, “Roosevelt the Thinker,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, January
2009.
Review of Dispersed Relations by Reginald Stuart, International Journal, Summer 2008.
“A Benign Big Stick: Theodore Roosevelt and Global Policing,” Journal of the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era, 7, 1, January 2008.
Op/Ed Pieces
“The Heat Wave that Changed American History,” online article, History News Network,
20 September 2010.
“We’re Having a Heat Wave,” online article, Huffington Post, 25 August 2010.
“Whatever Happened to Speak Softly?” Toronto Globe and Mail, 10 October 2002.
Editorial Work
Editorial board member, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Guest Editor, “American Relations to Europe During the Theodore Roosevelt Era,” Journal of
the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, forthcoming 2014.
INTERVIEWS RELATED TO Hot Time in the Old Town
National U.S. Media
The Takeaway (PRI), 30 July 2010
Fresh Air (NPR), 11 August 2010
Marketplace Morning Report (American Public Media/NPR), 17 August 2010
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central), 18 August 2010.
U.S. News and World Report Digital Weekly, 20 August 2010.
The John Batchelor Show (ABC Radio Network), 23 August 2010.
Local Media
Metro New York (New York), 16 July 2010.
WGVU Morning Show (WGVU-AM & FM/Grand Rapids, MI/NPR affiliate), 3 August
2010.
It’s About You (KDVS-FM, Davis, CA), 11 August 2010.
Valerie’s New York (WOR-AM/New York), 12 August 2010.
Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC-AM & FM/New York/NPR affiliate), 12 August 2010.
Cityscape (WFUV-FM/New York/NPR affiliate), 14 August 2010.
New York Times Close Up (New York 1 News), 21 August 2010.
Think (KERA-FM/Dallas, TX/NPR affiliate), 25 August 2010.
Kathleen Dunn Show (Wisconsin Public Radio/NPR affiliate), 31 August 2010.
International Media
Moncrieff! With Sean Moncrieff (Newstalk Radio/Ireland), 16 August 2010.
OTHER/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Panel Discussion
6 November 2012
Public Talk/Book signing
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York.
12 August 2010.
Panel Discussion
20 January 2010
Member of panel at Turkish-American Association discussing President Obama’s first
year.
Radio Interview
7 November 2008
Hour-long interview on TRT, Turkey’s national radio station, on 2008 election.
Panel Discussion
4 November 2008
Member of panel at Turkish-American Association's "Election Watch 2008," discussing
U.S. presidential elections. Panel covered by Turkish media and featured on CNN Turk.
Lecture, Turkish Military Academy
December 2006, April 2007,
“The Battle of the Bulge”
February 2008
Panel Discussion
31 October 2006
Member of panel at Turkish-American Association’s “Election Watch 2006” discussing
U.S. Congressional midterm elections.
Lecture, Turkish-American Association
December 2005
“Theodore Roosevelt’s New York: A Virtual Tour of Gilded Age New York”
Lecture, Turkish Military Academy
“Pearl Harbor”
December 2005
Board Member
October 2005
Elected alternate member to Board of Trustees, Turkish-American Association
Lecture, Turkish Military Academy
“Rommel’s Kuskonmaz: The Normandy Invasion”
April 2005
Documentary Narrator
Release Date: 2005
English-language narrator for documentary "The Battles of Canakkale, 1915," produced
by Forsnet Information Technologies and Turkish Historical Society.
Television Interview
3 November 2004
Live, one-on-one studio interview with NTV/CNBC-e on American presidential election.
Panel Discussion
2 November 2004
Member of panel at Turkish-American Association's "Election Watch 2004," discussing
U.S. presidential elections. Panel covered by Turkish media and featured on CNN Turk.
Television/Radio Interviews
March 2003
Gave various interviews to Montreal media commenting on start of war in Iraq.