Public Workers, Private Properties: Slaves in the Topography of 19th century Egypt

Date: 

Friday, December 6, 2013, 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Director's Lecture Series is pleased to present

Eve M. Troutt Powell
Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

Eve M. Troutt Powell is an associate professor who teaches the history of the modern Middle East. As a cultural historian, she emphasizes the exploration of literature and film in her courses. She is the author of Tell This in my Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2012), A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain and the Mastery of the Sudan (University of California, 2003) and the co-author, with John Hunwick, of The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam, (Princeton Series on the Middle East, Markus Wiener Press, 2002). Troutt Powell received her BA, MA and PhD from Harvard University. Prior to coming to Penn she taught for ten years at The University of Georgia. She has received fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt and the Social Science Research Council, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2003 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Contact: Liz Flanagan

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