Peter Benjamin Golden

Peter Benjamin Golden ( * 1941 ) is Professor of History at Rutgers University. His research focuses on the Turkish nomads of Eurasia in the Middle Ages, their interactions with Russia, Byzantium, the Caucasus and Islamic countries, Turkish philology, Hungarian Proto History, Caucasian studies and ethnogenesis. Golden has published several works and articles in professional journals. He speaks several languages.

Awards

  • Honorary Member of Turk Dil Kurumu (1989 )
  • Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (1994 )
  • Provost's Award for outstanding research (2005)

Memberships

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Phi Alpha Theta
  • American Historical Association
  • American Oriental Society
  • Asian Studies Association
  • Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research
  • Byzantine Studies Conference
  • Central Asian Studies Association
  • Early Slavic Studies Association
  • Eurasian Linguistic Association
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • Middle Eastern Studies Association
  • Middle East medievalists Association
  • Mongolia Society
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Society for Iranian Studies
  • Society for the Study of Caucasia
  • Turkish Studies Association
  • Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in U.S.
  • World History Association
  • World Turkology Association

Works

  • Khazar Studies. An Historico - Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars ( Chasaren-Studien. A historical- philological inquiry of the origins of the Khazars ), Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, XXV, 1-2, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980, 2 volumes
  • The Byzantine Greek element in the Rasulid Hexaglot ( Byzantine Greek elements in Rasulid vocabulary), Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, V (1985 ), pp. 41-166
  • An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples: Ethnogenesis and State - Formation in Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia and the Middle East, ( An Introduction to the History of the Turkic peoples: ethnogenesis and state formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East ), from the series: Turco Logica, Vol 9 ( ed. Lars Johanson ), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992
  • The King's Dictionary. The Rasülid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongolian ( The King's Dictionary The Rasulid. Vocabulary: Words of the 14th century in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Mongolian ), edited with an introduction and commentary, translated by T. Halasi -kun, PB Golden, L. Ligeti, Ö. Contactor, with essays by P.B. Golden and T.Th. Allsen, Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2000
  • Türk Halkları Tarihine Giriş ( An Introduction to the History of the Turkic peoples ), translated Osman Karatay, Ankara karam Yayınevi, 2002
  • Nomads and Their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs ( Nomads and their neighbors in the Russian steppe Turks, Khazars and Kipchaks. ) In Variorum Collected Studies series, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003
  • Co -author with C. Zuckerman, A. Zajączkowski, Hazarlar ve Musevîlik ( The Khazars and Judaism ), edited O. Karatay, Çorum karam Yayınevi, 2005

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