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).