Michael Gunter

Michael Gunter
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineKurdish studies
Institutions

Michael M. Gunter is a professor of political science at Tennessee Technological University[1] in Cookeville, Tennessee and considered an authority on the Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran.  Brendan O’Leary referred to Gunter as, "The doyen of Kurdish political studies in the United States,”[2] while Martin van Bruinessen wrote that Gunter is "probably the most prolific of today’s scholars of Kurdish politics.”[3]  Gunter has written or edited more than 15 books on the Kurdish struggle and 2 more criticized for promoting Armenian genocide denial. Two of those books on the Kurds were among the first analyses in English in modern times of the Kurdish unrest in the Middle East. In writing his analyses, Gunter has worked directly with top Kurdish and other Middle Eastern political leaders. He received the Kurdish Human Rights Watch's “Service to the Kurds Award” in 1998.[4] "Gunter’s analyses and writings sometimes strike readers as controversial, but he says his views are often based on information that hasn't yet been made public."[5]  He has served as the secretary-general of the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC), an NGO in Brussels that lobbies the EU parliament on behalf of the Kurds since 2009. He is a member of the Board of Advisory Editors of The Middle East Journal, The Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and The International Journal of Turkish Studies, among others.

Education

Gunter earned his B.A. in American history in 1964 from Columbia University,[6] his M.I.A. from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs in 1966, and his Ph.D. in international relations from Kent State University in 1972.[7][8]

Teaching experience

Gunter taught at Kent State from 1967 to 1971. Since 1972, Gunter has taught political science at Tennessee Tech University. He was an assistant professor from 1972 to 1976, an associate professor from 1976 to 1981, and a professor since 1981. He won the university's Caplenor Faculty Research Award in 1995–1996 and the Outstanding Teaching Award in 1999–2000. He is only the second faculty member in Tennessee Tech's history to win both of these awards.[7][8]

He was also a Senior Fulbright-Hays Lecturer in international relations at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey from 1978 to 1979. He was an instructor of ESL and American Culture at Shanghai Xuhui Education College in Shanghai, China during the summer of 2001. He was an adjunct professor for Fisk University in the fall of 2002. He was a visiting professor for The International University in Vienna, Austria during the summers of 2002 and 2003, where he won the Distinguished Visiting Professor Award in 2003.[7] He also taught courses on Kurdish and Middle Eastern politics, among others, for the U.S. Government Areas Studies Program and U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C. Since 2018, he has been a “Distinguished Professor of the Centre for Turkish Studies of Shaanxi Normal University” in Xi’an China.

Recent publications

  • The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics, co-ed., 2020[9]
  • Kurdish Autonomy and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-ed., 2020[10]
  • The Kurds: A Divided Nation in Search of a State, 3rd ed., 2019[11]
  • Routledge Handbook on the Kurds, ed., 2019[12]
  • Historical Dictionary of the Kurds, 3rd ed., 2018[13]
  • The Kurds, a Modern History, 2016[14]
  • Kurdish Issues: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Olson, ed., 2016[15]
  • Out of Nowhere, The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War, 2014[16]
  • Earlier, Gunter published many other books and over 200 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.

Controversies

Gunter has been criticized for denying the Armenian genocide and claiming that Armenians are responsible for "provoking" their own persecution.[17] His book Armenian History and the Question of Genocide was described as "a very badly written and poorly argued volume" by historian Richard Hovannisian.[18] The book was partially funded by Turkish Coalition of America.[18] He published a positive review of Guenter Lewy's book The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey after having blurbed it, raising criticism of professional integrity.[19][20]

References

  1. ^ "Michael Gunter". www.tntech.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  2. ^ O’Leary, Brendan (2017-12-15). "The Kurds, the Four Wolves, and the Great Powers". The Journal of Politics. 80 (1): 353–366. doi:10.1086/695343. ISSN 0022-3816. S2CID 204416748.
  3. ^ "Kurdish Studies Vol 8, No 1 (2020) Special Issue on Alevis". Kurdish Studies. 2020-05-25. Archived from the original on 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  4. ^ "TTU professor publishes history of Kurdish people". www.tntech.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  5. ^ "Tech Times | Gunter ranking". 2008-03-11. Archived from the original on 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  6. ^ "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  7. ^ a b c "Gunter Named Outstanding Teacher". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
  8. ^ a b "Dr. Michael M. Gunter". www.tntech.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
  9. ^ The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics.
  10. ^ Kurdish Autonomy and U.S. Foreign Policy. 2019-09-20. Retrieved 2021-06-11. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  11. ^ "The Kurds: A Divided Nation in Search of a State (2019 Edition) — Markus Wiener Publishers". markuswiener.com. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  12. ^ "Routledge Handbook on the Kurds". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  13. ^ Historical Dictionary of the Kurds, Third Edition.
  14. ^ Gunter, Michael M. (2016). The Kurds: A Modern History. Markus Wiener Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55876-614-3.
  15. ^ "Mazda Publishers - Kurdish Issues". www.mazdapublishers.com. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  16. ^ Gunter, Michael M. (2014). Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-84904-435-6.
  17. ^ Usitalo, Steven A. (2016). "Armenian History and the Question of Genocide by Michael M. Gunter (review)". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 30 (2): 376–378. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcw044. ISSN 1476-7937.
  18. ^ a b Hovannisian, Richard G. (2015-12-01). "Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later: The New Practitioners and Their Trade". Genocide Studies International. 9 (2): 228–247. doi:10.3138/gsi.9.2.04. ISSN 2291-1847. S2CID 155132689.
  19. ^ Kéchichian, Joseph A. (2007). "A Response to Michael Gunter's Review of "The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide (IJMES 38 [2006]: 598-601)". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 39 (3): 509–512. doi:10.1017/S0020743807070857. ISSN 0020-7438. JSTOR 30069560. S2CID 162021204.
  20. ^ "Michael Gunter: He blurbed a book ... Should he then have reviewed it? | History News Network". historynewsnetwork.org. Retrieved 2021-06-15.

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