Kemal Karpat (15 February 1924,[1][2] Babadag Tulcea, Romania – 20 February 2019, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States)[3] was a Romanian-Turkish naturalised American historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
[4] He was of Turkish origin and born in Babadag, Romania.
He received his LLB from the University of Istanbul, his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from New York University.
He previously worked for the UN Economics and Social Council and taught at the University of Montana (though it was called Montana State University at the time) and New York University.
His final post was at Istanbul Şehir University.