Dr. Justin A. McCarthy is an American demographer, Ottoman Empire expert, and Balkan history expert and history professor at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr. McCarthy, is best known for rejecting the Armenian Genocide thesis and has written books, about the Balkans, Balkan history, the Middle East, and Ottoman Empire history.

He has a Ph. D. in Ottoman history from the University of California.

PBS Armenian Genocide Debate

In PBS a documentary called the "Armenian Genocide" by Andrew Goldberg was followed by an Armenian Genocide Debate Panel between 4 scholars; Dr. McCarthy presented the Turkish position to the debate along with Dr. Omer Turan (Ottoman History professor), and Dr. Peter Balakian (Humanities and Literature professor) and Taner Akcam (Sociology Professor) presented the Armenian position.

Interviews

An interview in 2007 with Dr. Justin McCarthy has appeared on YouTube:
Interview with Dr. Justin McCarthy

Works

• The Armenian Rebellion at Van (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies) (September 2006)
• Who Are the Turks?: A Manual for Teachers (January 2003)
• The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire ("Historical Endings" series) (April 2001)
• The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923 (March 1997)
• Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 (March 1996) ISBN 0-87850-094-4
• The Population of Palestine (1990)
• Muslims and Minorities: The Population of Ottoman Anatolia and the End of the Empire (December 1983) ISBN 0-8147-5390-6
• Arab World, Turkey, and the Balkans, 1878-1914 (1982)