Amy Singer (historian)
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Amy Singer | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BA) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
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| Notable works | Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-century Jerusalem (1994) |
Amy Singer is an American historian. She is a Professor of Ottoman and Islamic History at Brandeis University. Her major research areas are agrarian relations, philanthropy, and the city of Edirne.
Singer earned her BA at Swarthmore College (1982).[1] She completed a PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 1989.[2]
Career
In 1989, she was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. In 2007 she was promoted to professor. Singer served as head of the Women's Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University.[3]
In 2018, she was appointed to the department of history and the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.[4]
She has held a number of research grants and fellowships including from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) (2014–15),[5] and a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford (2018–19).[6] Singer has also held visiting professorships at the Boğaziçi University (2011) and Bologna University (2010).
Singer is on the editorial board of Mediterranean Historical Review,[7] the Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society[8] and Turcica and is president of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.[9] She established OpenOttoman, a digital platform for Ottoman studies.[10]
