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Timur Kuran
Timur Kuran is a Turkish-American economist and political scientist currently serving as a professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His research lies at the intersection of economics, political science, history, and law.
Kuran was born in 1954 in New York City, where his parents were graduate students at Yale University. They returned to Turkey, and he spent his early childhood in Ankara, where his father, Aptullah Kuran, taught at Middle East Technical University. The family moved to Istanbul in 1969, when the senior Kuran joined the faculty of Robert College, whose higher education side became Boğaziçi University in 1971.
Kuran obtained his secondary education in Istanbul, graduating from Robert College in 1973. He went on to study economics at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude in 1977. He obtained his doctorate in economics at Stanford University in 1982, under the supervision of Kenneth Arrow.
Kuran taught at University of Southern California between 1982 and 2007, where he held the King Faisal professorship in Islamic Thought and Culture from 1993 onwards. He moved to Duke University in 2007, as Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies and with a joint appointment in the departments of Economics and Political Science.
Kuran's visiting positions include: Institute for Advanced Study (1989–90), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; (1996–1997), Economics Department, Stanford University (2004–2005), Law School, Yale University (2020).
From 2008 to 2014 Kuran served on the executive committee of the International Economic Association. He is a founding member of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS), which he has directed since its establishment in 2011.
Kuran was the founding editor of the University of Michigan Press book series Economics, Cognition, and Society (1989–2006). Since 2009, he has been co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society, which he co-founded with Peter Boettke. He has co-edited the Journal of Comparative Economics since 2017.
Kuran is a promoter of freedom of expression, within and outside academia. In 2021, he became a co-founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA). In 2022, he joined the Advisory Council of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
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Timur Kuran
Timur Kuran is a Turkish-American economist and political scientist currently serving as a professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His research lies at the intersection of economics, political science, history, and law.
Kuran was born in 1954 in New York City, where his parents were graduate students at Yale University. They returned to Turkey, and he spent his early childhood in Ankara, where his father, Aptullah Kuran, taught at Middle East Technical University. The family moved to Istanbul in 1969, when the senior Kuran joined the faculty of Robert College, whose higher education side became Boğaziçi University in 1971.
Kuran obtained his secondary education in Istanbul, graduating from Robert College in 1973. He went on to study economics at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude in 1977. He obtained his doctorate in economics at Stanford University in 1982, under the supervision of Kenneth Arrow.
Kuran taught at University of Southern California between 1982 and 2007, where he held the King Faisal professorship in Islamic Thought and Culture from 1993 onwards. He moved to Duke University in 2007, as Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies and with a joint appointment in the departments of Economics and Political Science.
Kuran's visiting positions include: Institute for Advanced Study (1989–90), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; (1996–1997), Economics Department, Stanford University (2004–2005), Law School, Yale University (2020).
From 2008 to 2014 Kuran served on the executive committee of the International Economic Association. He is a founding member of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS), which he has directed since its establishment in 2011.
Kuran was the founding editor of the University of Michigan Press book series Economics, Cognition, and Society (1989–2006). Since 2009, he has been co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society, which he co-founded with Peter Boettke. He has co-edited the Journal of Comparative Economics since 2017.
Kuran is a promoter of freedom of expression, within and outside academia. In 2021, he became a co-founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA). In 2022, he joined the Advisory Council of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).