**About the Editor**

**Peter C. Mentzel** received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington in 1994. He was a member of the Department of History at Utah State University for 13 years before joining Liberty Fund as a Senior Fellow in 2008. His research focuses on nationalism and modernization in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. He is the author of Transportation Technology and Imperialism in the Ottoman Empire and has published chapters in a number of edited collections, including most recently, "Nations, Nationality, and Civil Society in the Work of Edward Shils," in Stephen Turner and Christopher Adair-Toteff, eds., The Calling of Social Thought: Rediscovering the Work of Edward Shils (2019). His other work has appeared in many peer-reviewed journals, including The American Historical Review, Slavic Review, Nations and Nationalism, Turcica, and East European Quarterly. He was on the Board of Editors of Nationalities Papers from 1999–2002. He is currently working on a history of the Principality of Samos.
