Kent F. Schull is associate professor of Ottoman and modern Middle East history at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY), and the director of Binghamton University’s Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies (CMENAS). He received his doctorate from UCLA (2007) and is a twice Fulbright scholar to Turkey. His research and teaching interests include the social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East, criminal justice, Middle East diaspora studies, Israeli and Palestinian history, and forced migration and genocide studies in the MENA region.