Cemil Aydin is professor of global history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His recent publications include The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia (Columbia Univ. Press, 2007) and The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Harvard Univ. Press, 2017). His research focuses on the political and intellectual history of the modern world from an interdisciplinary global history perspective, utilizing archives in multiple languages and perspectives. In addition to his previous service as an AHA program committee member, he has experience in serving various academic leadership and administrative positions, and managed large federal and private funded research projects. He is committed to internationalizing historical research, education and narratives with research collaboration with colleagues in other countries across the world. He has been serving as one of the co-editors of the Columbia University Press book series on International and Global Studies for the last eight years. Aydin is aiming to strengthen and defend academic freedom and moral integrity of historical profession in North America, while expanding access to research resources for all scholars. He also aims to support the public facing activities of historians who contribute to crucial contemporary struggles of equality, justice and freedom with their research and scholarship.
Cemil Aydin
