News Peter Golden, professor of history, Faculty of Arts and Science-Newark, delivered the first Distinguished Faculty Lecture on the Newark campus. Archived article from Nov 7, 2005 By Carla Capizzi

Credit: Shelley Kusnetz Peter Golden Peter Golden, professor of history, Faculty of Arts and Science-Newark, delivered the first Distinguished Faculty Lecture on the Newark campus Oct. 20 at the Rutgers Center for Law and Justice. Golden, whose expertise in medieval Eurasian history has garnered international recognition and even television exposure on PBS, discussed “The Shaping of Ethnicity in Central Eurasia.” Golden is the inaugural recipient of the Provost’s Distinguished Research Award, which singles out professors who have done “exceptional scholarly work on a subject of fundamental intellectual importance.” The award includes a $5,000 honorarium. He has taught Rutgers courses in medieval Eurasia, Turko-Byzantine and Turko-Slavic relations, the history of Islam, and world history since 1969, and was history department chair for eight years. Golden has a working knowledge of a wide array of Slavic and Turkish languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Ottoman Turkish and Uzbek, as well as Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Persian, Georgian and Hungarian.

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