Kemal Silay was born in 1964. He is the Chair of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. He received his bachelor’s degree from Ankara University in 1987, master’s degree from Indiana University in 1990 and doctorate from Indiana University in 1993. He served as an assistant professor at University of Washington from 1993 to 1997, and has been a professor at Indiana University since 1998. His recent works include From Liberal Deconstructions to Islamist Counterrevolution (2011)，Computers, Sex and Gender and Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (2007).