Research and Teaching Interests
The history of medieval Eurasia and the interaction of the Turko-Mongolian steppe peoples with the neighboring sedentary states (Rus', Byzantium, the Caucasus, and the Islamic world). Ethnogenesis. Turkic philology.
Previously Taught Classes
Undergraduate
Ottoman Empire
(01:685:301)
Topics in Middle Eastern Studies: History of Central Asia
(01:685:391)
Selected Publications
Central Asia in World History (New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Early Turks and Khazars: Origins, Institutions and Interactions in Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2010.)
The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age, co-edited with N. Di Cosmo ad A.J. Frank (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Nomads and Their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs in Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2003).
Türk Halklari Tarihine Giris, (Turk. Trans.by O. Karatay (Ankara: KaraM, 2002), a Turkish translation of my An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992).
The King's Dictionary. The Rasûlid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongolian, edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Peter B. Golden, translated by T. Halasi-Kun, P.B. Golden, L. Ligeti, Ö. Schütz,with essays by P.B. Golden and Th. T. Allsen (Leiden: Brill, 2000).
Honors, Awards, and Professional Service
Member of the Institute For Advanced Study (Princeton), 2005-2006.
Provost’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Rutgers-Newark, 2005
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2001.
Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, 1994.
Honorary Member, Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Society), elected 1989.
Honorary Member, Csoma de Kőrös Society of Hungarian Orientalists, elected, 2009
