OLSON, Robert W(illiam)

OLSON, Robert W(illiam). American, b. 1940. Genres: History, Area studies. Career: High school teacher, 1962-63; teacher in Salihii, Turkey, 1963-65, and Koycegiz, Turkey, 1964-65; Indiana University-Bloomington, associate instructor in history, 1969-72; Clemson University, Clemson, SC, lecturer in history, 1972-73; University of Kentucky, Lexington, assistant professor, 1973-77, associate professor, 1977-86, professor of Middle East and Ottoman history, 1986-. Publications: The Siege of Mosul and Ottoman- Persian Relations, 1718-1743, 1975; The Ba'th and Syria, 1947-1982, 1980; (ed. with A. Jabbari) Iran: Essays on a Revolution in the Making, 1981; (gen. ed.) A. Bani Sadr, The Fundamental Principles and Precepts of Islam and Precepts of Islamic Government, 1981; The Ba'th and Syria, 1947-1982, 1982; (gen. ed.) J.A. Ahmad, Iranian Society: An Anthology of Writings, 1982; (ed. with A. Hussain and J. Qureshi) Orientalism, Islam, and Islamists, 1985; (ed.) Islamic and Middle Eastern Societies, 1987; The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925, 1989, as The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism, 1991; Imperial Meanderings and Republican By-Ways, 1997; The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations, 1998; Turkey's Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel and Russia, 1991- 2000, 2001. Address: Department of History, University of Kentucky, 1751 Patterson Office Tower 0027, Lexington, KY 40506-0027, U.S.A. Online address: hisposta@uky.edu