Amy Singer (historian)

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Amy Singer
Academic background
Alma mater Swarthmore College
Princeton University
Notable worksPalestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-century Jerusalem (1994)

Amy Singer is a Professor of Ottoman and Islamic History at Brandeis University. Her major research areas are agrarian relations, philanthropy, and the city of Edirne.

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Education

Singer took 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 Bosphorus 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]

Rewards and recognition

In 2010 she received the ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) Book Prize for the Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, for Charity in Islamic Societies. [11] In 2008 she received the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award 2008, First Prize, for the article: “The Persistence of Philanthropy”. [12]

Selected publications

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Edited volumes

Articles

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  5. "2014-2015 Members, Visitors and Research Assistant | School of Historical Studies". www.hs.ias.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  6. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  7. Singer, Amy (2004-06-01). "Introduction". Mediterranean Historical Review. 19 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1080/0951896042000256616. ISSN   0951-8967.
  8. "View of Vol 3 No 1 (2019)". scholarworks.iu.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  9. "Our Board" . Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  10. Amy Singer (2016). "Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman". Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. 3 (2): 407–412. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.3.2.20. JSTOR   10.2979/jottturstuass.3.2.20.
  11. "Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research - Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action". www.arnova.org. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  12. "The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award 2016". award.sabanciuniv.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-22.