Contributors
- Contributors
Olivier Bouquet is an assistant professor of history at Nice-Sophia Antipolis University. He is the author of Les pachas du sultan: Essai sur les agents supérieurs de l’État ottoman, 1839–1909 (Peeters, 2007).
Denise Gill-Gürtan is an ethnomusicologist who received her PhD in music and feminist studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the 2007 winner of the Ki Mantle Hood Award from the Society of Ethnomusicology. As a kanun player committed to the study of Ottoman-Turkish classical and Mevlevi music traditions, she has performed in Turkey and the United States and for the European Union in Brussels. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Beloit College and has previously taught at the College of William and Mary.
Zoe Griffith is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the Ottoman province of Egypt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with attention to economic and cultural networks within the Ottoman and wider Mediterranean spheres, material culture, and political and moral economies. She received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in history and Middle Eastern and North African studies in 2006.
Maureen Jackson is the ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Carleton College. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in comparative literature/textual studies, focusing on Ottoman-Turkish-Jewish musical ethnographies in the context of imperial and national history. A book based on her dissertation is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
Laura C. Robson is assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She received her doctorate from Yale University in 2009 and has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Whiting Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. She is the author of Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine (University of Texas Press, 2011).
Amy Singer is a professor of Ottoman studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem (State University of New York Press, 2002), and Charity in Islamic Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and the editor, most recently, of Starting with Food: Culinary Approaches to Ottoman History (Markus Wiener, 2010).
Jean H. Quataert is professor of history and women’s studies at Bingamton University, SUNY. A trained German historian, she has written books and articles on such topics as feminism and socialism in German social democracy, protoindustry and women’s work, and the gendered politics of nationalism in dynastic Germany. Recently, she turned to new research projects on human rights history and international law. Her most recent publications include “The Gendering of Human Rights in the International Systems of Law in the Twentieth Century,” Essays on Global and Comparative History (The American Historical Association, 2006) and Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). [End Page 671]
