Ryan Gingeras is an associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and is an expert on Turkish, Balkan, and Middle East history. He is the author of four books, including most recently, Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922 (2016). His Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire (2009) received short list distinctions for the Rothschild Book Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies and the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. He has published on a wide variety of topics related to history and politics in such journals as Foreign Affairs, International Journal of Middle East Studies, MiddleEast Journal, Iranian Studies, Diplomatic History, Past & Present, and Journal of Contemporary European History.