Norman Itzkowitz is a Polish American Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University

Princeton University

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. Norman is an Ottoman

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 historian who brings perception of psychoanalysis into Near Eastern Studies.

Norman Itzkowitz was also the Master of Wilson College at Princeton

Wilson College, Princeton University

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 from 1975-89. While doing this he assisted the students in developing leadership skills in running the social, cultural, and academic aspects of the college's life.

Out of all of his awards, his most meaningful one was the Buitoni Scholarship in 1952. This enabled him to study at the University for Foreigners Perugia, where he gained a lot of cultural and academic experience.

Norman Itzkowitz publishied many books and articles on The Ottoman Empire and Near Eastern studies. Much of Itzkowitz's work is collaborative,he did much of his studies with R.R Palmer, Gordon Craig

Gordon Craig

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, Cyril Black

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, his Ottoman history mentors Lewis V. Thomas and Vamik Volkan

Vamik Volkan

Vamık D. Volkan, M.D. is a Turkish-Cypriot emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine...

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Norman's advice for furture psychohistory is to write better stuff, be less eclectic, and know more. This will gain the audience's and practitioner's interest.

Education

• Stuyvesant High School, New York City, 1946–49
• CCNY,1949–53, B.A., 1953
• University of Perugia for Foreigners, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1952
• Princeton University, 1953–59, M.A., 1956; Ph.D.,1959
• National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, member-in-training, 1972–80

Family life

Norman Itzkowitz was born in a working class family. His father ran a sewing machine in a factory for children's clothing. Norman was the youngest of three, he had a sister who is six years older and a brother who is three years older. Both his brother and sister have their Ph.D.

Norman was married to Leonore Krauss, June 13, 1954 and Norman's father died when he was 38 years old and his mother died when he was 53 years old.

Employment

• Princeton University, Instructor,Departments of History and Oriental Studies, 1958–61
• Assistant Professor, Oriental Studies 1961-66
• Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies 1966-73
• Professor, Near Eastern Studies,1973-
• Master,Wilson College, 1975–1989

Visiting Appointments:

• CCNY, Summer 1959
• Teachers College, Columbia University, 1964
• New York University, 1969; 1972; 1974; Summer,1985
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1970
• University of British Columbia, Summer 1971

• Cunard Lines,Lecturer, May 1991, Black Sea Cruise MS. Vistafiord,Genoa
• The Crimea-Genoa Classical Cruises, lecturer on Black Sea Cruise, September,1998
• Princeton University Alumni College—Led a tour of Western and Southwestern Turkey entitled "Turkey:Crossroads of Civilizations", for thirty-two Princeton Alumni, last two weeks of June 1994.
• SEABOURN SUN, lecturer on Baltic Sea Cruise, July,2000
• Cunard Lines, QEII, lecturer on New York-Halifax and return Cruise,September 2000.

Awards, Honors, Fellowships

• Varsity Letters in Fencing and Lacrosse, CCNY
• Phi Beta Kappa, CCNY, 1952
• Buitoni Scholarship, Study in Italy, CCNY, Summer 1952
• Cromwell Medal in History, CCNY, 1953
• Near East Fellow, Princeton University, 1953–54
• Ford Foundation Fellow, 1954–59
• Carnegie Teaching Fellow, CCNY, Summer 1959
• Procter & Gamble
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   Fellow, Princeton University, 1964–65
• HEW, Near East Central Grant for Study Abroad, 1964–65;1969–70
• SSRC, Travel Grant, 1969–70
• Littauer Foundation Fellow, 1970;1974
• Center for International Studies Fellow, Summer 1978
• Director, NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary and Elementary School Teachers, Summer 1983 on The Ottoman Legacy in the Modern Middle East
• Director, NEH Summer Institute for Secondary and Elementary School Teachers, Summer 1986 on Islam: History,Culture,and Religion
• Director, NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers, Summer 1987 on Insights into Ottoman Statecraft for College Teachers of European History
• Director, NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary and Elementary School Teachers,Summer 1988 on The Impact of the Islamic Historical Experience on the Contemporary Near East
• Director, NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers, Summer 1989 on The Moderniation of the Ottoman Empire: Tanzimat and the Eastern Question
• Director, NEH Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers, Summer 1990 on a Comparison Between the Imperial Institutions of the Ottoman Empire and Ming China
• Director, NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers, Summer 1992 on a Comparison Between the Imperial Institutions of the Ottoman Empire and Ming China

Books

• Elementary Turkish, by Lewis V. Thomas, edited and revised by Norman Itzkowitz, (Harvard University Press,Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967). Reprinted in revised edition by Dover Press,New York, 1985.
• Mubadele: An Ottoman-Russian Exchange of Ambassadors, (with Max Mote), (University of Chicago Press, New York, 1972).
• A Study of Naima, by Lewis V. Thomas, edited by Norman Itzkowitz, (New York University Press, New York, 1972).
• The Ottoman Empire:The Classical Age, by Halil Inalcik, trans. by Norman Itzkowitz and Colin Imber, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973).
• Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition, (A.A. Knopf Inc., New York, 1973). Reprinted by the University of Chicago Press, 1980. Turkish trans. Osmanli Imperatorlugu ve Islam Gelenk, Cidam Yayinlari, 1989. Chinese translation, Chinese University of Kong, 1987.
• Psychological Dimensions of Near Eastern Studies, edited by L. Carl Brown and Norman Itzkowitz, (The Darwin Press, Princeton, N.J., 1977).
• The Immortal Atatürk:A Psychobiogrphy, (with Dr. Vamik Volkan), (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1984. Paperback edition, 1986. Turkish translation by Baglam Press, Istanbul, 1998).
• Modernization in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire and its Afro-Asian Successors, ed. Cyril E. Black and L. Carl Brown, (Darwin Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1992).
• Turks and Greeks: Neighbours in Conflict with Vamik Volkan, (Eothen Press, Cambridge, England, 1994). Turkish translation, Baglam Press, 1998.
• Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography, with Vamik Volkan and Andrew Dod, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1997).
• The Balkans (A study kit for high school students), (Golden Owl Press, Amawalk, New York, 2000).

Articles

• "Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Realties", Studia Islamica, fas. 16,(1962),pp. 73–94.
• "Health, Education and Welfare--Ottoman Style", Midway, Vol., No. 3, (Winter 1968), pp. 59–68.
• "Kimsiniz Bey Efendi, or a Look at Tanzimat
  Tanzimat
  The Tanzimât , meaning reorganization of the Ottoman Empire, was a period of reformation that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876. The Tanzimât reform era was characterized by various attempts to modernize the Ottoman Empire, to secure its territorial integrity against...
  
   through Namier-colored Glasses", Near East Round Table, ed., R. Bayly Winder (New York University Press, 1969), pp. 41–52.
• "The End of the Ottoman Empire", History of the First World War, Vol.8, No.8 (1971), pp. 3351–3355
• "The Office of Seyh ul-Islam and Tanzimat: A Prosopographic Enquiry", (with Joel Shinder), Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.8 (January 1972), No.1, pp 93–101
• "Ankara", Encyclopædia Britannica (1974),I, 927-34.
• "The Ottoman Empire", The World of Islam, ed. Bernard Lewis, (Thames and Hudson, London, 1976), pp. 273–300.
• "Men and Ideas in the Eighteenth- Century Ottoman Empire", Studies in Eighteenth-Century Islamic History, ed. By Thomas Naff and Roger Owen,(Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Ill.,1977), pp. 15–26.
• "The Problem of Perspectives", Imperial Legacy, ed. by L. Carl Brown,(Columbia University Press, New York, New York,1995),pp. 18–30.
• "Turkish and Greek Identities and a Comparison Between Them" (with Vamik Volkan), Proceedings of the First International Congress on Cypriot Studies, ed. by Emel Dogramaci, William Haney, Guray Konig, (Eastern Mediterranean University Press, 1997, Gazimagusta, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) pp. 179–216.
• Long articles for Encarta
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  on "The Ottoman Empire", "The Spread of Islam", "Istanbul"

External links

• Personal webpage at Princeton University