Hans-Lukas Kieseris a historian of the Modern Era, especially the late and post-Ottoman world, at the University of Zurich and the University of Newcastle, Australia. His monographs in English include When Democracy Died: The Middle East’s Enduring Peace of Lausanne (Cambridge 2023), Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey and Architect of Genocide (Princeton 2018), Nearest East: American Millennialism and Mission to the Middle East (Philadelphia 2010), and A Quest for Belonging: Anatolia Beyond Empire and Nation (Istanbul 2007).