Roderic H. Davison (April 27, 1917 – March 23, 1996) was an American historian of the Middle East who taught at George Washington University from 1947 to 1993.
[2] Born in Buffalo, New York, the son of an academic at Robert College, Davison grew up in Istanbul.
In 1947 he began teaching courses at George Washington University, on Near Eastern and European diplomatic history and on the Ottoman Empire for over 40 years.
[2] Davison died of respiratory illness on March 23, 1996, at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
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