was a visiting professor for The International University in Vienna, Austria during the summers of 2002 and 2003, where he won the Distinguished Visiting Professor Award in 2003. He also taught courses on Kurdish and Middle Eastern politics, among others, for the U.S. Government Areas Studies Program and U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C. Since 2018, he has been a “Distinguished Professor of the Centre for Turkish Studies of Shaanxi Normal University” in Xi’an China. Recent publications The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics, co-ed., 2020 Kurdish Autonomy and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-ed., 2020 The Kurds: A Divided Nation in Search of a State, 3rd ed., 2019 Routledge Handbook on the Kurds, ed., 2019 Historical Dictionary of the Kurds, 3rd ed., 2018 The Kurds, a Modern History, 2016 Kurdish Issues: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Olson, ed., 2016 Out of Nowhere, The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War, 2014 Earlier, Gunter published many other books and over 200 scholarly journal articles and book chapters. Controversies Gunter has been criticized for denying the Armenian genocide and claiming that Armenians are responsible for "provoking" their own persecution. His book Armenian History and the Question of Genocide was described as "a very badly written and poorly argued volume" by historian Richard Hovannisian. The book was partially funded by Turkish Coalition of America. He published a positive review of Guenter Lewy's book The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey after having blurbed it, raising criticism of professional integrity. References Deniers of the Armenian genocide Kent State University alumni Living people School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Tennessee Technological University faculty Columbia College (New York) alumni