Associate Professor of History Howard Eissenstat’s expertise on Turkey has been tapped into by several media outlets around the globe. Throughout February, he weighed in on government response and implications for the countries following the earthquake in Turkey in Syria during interviews and in articles published by, NBC News, The Washington Post ,Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC), Voaturkce.com, Inside Security, LorientleJour.com, and Lithuanian National Radio.
Eissenstat also spoke to Australia’s ABC News and Vox.com about and Turkey's resistance to Finland and Sweden's membership in NATO.
Eissenstats's recent work has focused increasingly on contemporary Turkish domestic and foreign policy, especially on issues of rule-of-law, minority rights, and the reshaping of political culture under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). At St. Lawrence, he teaches courses on Middle Eastern history and politics and in the First-Year Seminar (FYS). In addition to traditional academic work, Eissenstat served for over a decade as a Turkey Country Specialist for Amnesty International-USA. He has lectured at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. military, and the Canadian Foreign Service Institute, as well as given testimony to the Canadian Senate and offered briefings to Congressional Committees.
