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Population: 76,805,524 (July 2009 est.)

Government: republican parliamentary democracy; Chief of State: President Abdullah Gul (since Aug. 28, 2007); Head of Government: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (since March 14, 2003)

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anthropology, law, international affairs

Robert Hayden

Professor of anthropology, law, and international affairs; director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies
office: 412-648-7407
rhayden@pitt.edu
Faculty bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Anthropology of law and politics

Background
Hayden is an anthropologist of law and politics, and the director of Pitt’s Center for Russian and East European Studies within the University Center for International Studies.

He and has done extensive work on the Balkans and the reconstruction of states and nations in the former Yugoslavia, following extensive fieldwork there. He has also done fieldwork in India and among the Senecas of New York state. In addition, he has written on issues concerning the American legal system and its role in society.

Hayden received his law degree and PhD in anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1978 and 1981, respectively.

Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Ann Dugan

Director,
Pitt Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence,
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
office: 412-648-1544
cell: 412-760-1008
adugan@katz.pitt.eduFaculty Bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

International business, especially in Turkey; franchising; entrepreneurship; family business; women-owned firms; succession planning; innovative business strategy; high-growth companies; economic development in Western Pennsylvania

Background

Dugan is the executive director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, which was created to foster the growth and development of family businesses and entrepreneurial firms and to provide knowledge, advice, and innovative services to businesses at every stage in the business life cycle.

She is the author and editor of Franchising 101 (Upstart, 1998), a guide to evaluating, purchasing, operating, and growing a successful franchised business.

department of history

M. Pinar Emiralioglu

Assistant professor of Islamic history
office: 412-383-5407
pinar1@pitt.edu
Faculty Bio

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Patricia Lomando White
office: 412-624-9101
cell: 412-215-9932
laer@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

Political, cultural, and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire; history of cartography and geography

Background
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Emiralioglu was educated at the Bosphorus University in Istanbul, the Bilkent University in Ankara, and the University of Chicago. Emiralioglu has published several articles on the Ottoman geographical consciousness in the early modern period and is currently working on a book titled Eye of the World: Geographical Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire.

Emiralioglu has taught in the United States since 2006, but returns to Turkey each year to conduct research in the Ottoman archives and manuscript libraries in Istanbul.

graduate school of public and international affairs

Muge Koften Finkel

Assistant professor of international development, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
office: 412-383-9483
mfinkel@pitt.edu
Faculty Bio

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Amanda Leff
office: 412-624-4238
cell: 412-337-3350
aleff@pitt.edu

Areas of Expertise

Japanese politics, comparative social policy, comparative politics, social development, foreign affairs

Background
In addition to serving as an assistant professor, Muge Koften Finkel is a consultant for the World Bank. She received her PhD in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, her master’s degree in international relations from the International University of Japan, and her bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.