Gavin D. Brockett is Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada where he teaches Middle East and Islamic history. He is the author of How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk: Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of Muslim National Identity (Texas, 2011). He is the editor, with Touraj Atabaki, of Ottoman and Republican Turkish Labour History (Cambridge, 2010). He has published articles in The International Journal of Middle East Studies, History Compass, War & Society, and Middle Eastern Studies. He received his doctorate from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The University of Chicago in 2003.He can be reached at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
