Background
Justin A. McCarthy was born on January 25, 1945, in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is the son of Justin and Anita (Gibian) McCarthy.
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Justin A. McCarthy was born on January 25, 1945, in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is the son of Justin and Anita (Gibian) McCarthy.
McCarthy graduated from John Carroll University with a bachelor's degree in 1967. He then obtained his doctorate at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1978 and received a certificate in demography from Princeton University in 1980.
McCarthy later received an honorary doctorate from Boğaziçi University.
McCarthy served firstly in the Peace Corps in Turkey, from 1967 to 1969, where he taught at Middle East Technical University and Ankara University. After he returned to the United States, he started working as a teacher of cross-cultural studies and English to recent immigrants in Chicago and from 1973 to 1977 worked as a computer programmer at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Since 1978, McCarthy has held the position of a professor of history at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky. During his university's career, he also worked as a department head from 1986 to 1992 and a director of Institute for the Social Studies and Humanities from 1995 to 1997 there.
McCarthy was also a visiting professor and a speaker at various colleges and universities, including the University of London, Bogazici University, the University of Leiden, the University of Erlangen, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Georgetown University, Brandeis University, and Indiana University— Bloomington.
Justin A. McCarthy is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar of the Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey and the Middle E. He is particularly known for his controversial views about the Armenian Genocide thesis and books, about the Balkans, Balkan history, the Middle East, and Ottoman Empire history, including such as The Armenian Rebellion at Van, Who Are the Turks?: A Manual for Teachers, The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire, The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923, Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922, The Population of Palestine, Muslims and Minorities: The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire and Arab World, Turkey, and the Balkans, 1878-1914.
(Death and Exile is the history of the deportation and dea...)
1996(Justin McCarthy's introductory survey traces the whole hi...)
1997(In The Turk in America, historian Justin McCarthy seeks t...)
2010(Population History of the Middle East and the Balkans col...)
2002The Armenian Assembly of America has stated that McCarthy lent support to the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, which led an effort to defeat recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1985.
McCarthy is a member of the Middle East Studies Association, Middle Last Institute, Turkish Studies Association, Economic History Association, Institute of Turkish Studies and Turkish Historical Association.
Justin McCarthy has faced much criticism from Armenian scholars such as Peter Balakian including accusations that he is an "agent for the Turkish government." Justin McCarthy has been the target for hate campaigns to label him as a "genocide denialist" and "revisionist". Including continuous vandalism of his Wikipedia page to discredit his historical credentials.
In November 2013, three planned meetings at the Australian Federal Parliament, University of Melbourne and Art Gallery of New South Wales were canceled on the grounds of opposition to McCarthy's academic stances and due to pressure from groups who claimed that his view that there was no systematic and deliberate effort by the Ottoman Empire to wipe out populations amounts to genocide denial.
McCarthy married Carolyn Lamka on August 17, 1974. The couple has 4 children, Justin Nicholas, Caitlin Elizabeth, Anne Maureen, and John Patrick.
