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Amy Singer is a Professor at [[Tel Aviv University]].
'''Amy Singer''' is a Professor at [[Tel Aviv University]].


== Education ==
== Education ==
Singer completed a Phd in Near Eastern Studies, [[Princeton University]] in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2018/february/amy-singer-appointment.html|title=Amy Singer named to Hassenfeld Chair of Islamic Studies|website=BrandeisNOW|language=en|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref>
Singer completed a Phd in Near Eastern Studies at [[Princeton University]] in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2018/february/amy-singer-appointment.html|title=Amy Singer named to Hassenfeld Chair of Islamic Studies|website=BrandeisNOW|language=en|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref>


== Career ==
== 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.
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. In 2018 she was appointed to the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at [[Brandeis University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2018/february/amy-singer-appointment.html|title=Amy Singer named to Hassenfeld Chair of Islamic Studies|website=BrandeisNOW|language=en|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref>


She has held a number of research fellowships including the [[Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities]], the [[Institute for Advanced Study|Institute for Advanced Studies]] (2005), and a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/3432|title=All Souls College Oxford|website=www.asc.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref> Singer has also held a number of visiting professorships, at the [[Boğaziçi University|Bosphorus University]] (2011), [[University of Bologna|Bologna University]] (2010), [[St Antony's College, Oxford|St Antony’s College]] Oxford (2000-1).
She established OpenOttoman.


She established OpenOttoman, a digital platform for Ottoman studies.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Amy Singer|date=2016|title=Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jottturstuass.3.2.20|journal=Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association|volume=3|issue=2|pages=407|doi=10.2979/jottturstuass.3.2.20}}</ref>
From 2018-19 she is a visiting fellow at [[All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls College]], Oxford.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/3432|title=All Souls College Oxford|website=www.asc.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref>


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She is on the editorial board of [[Mediterranean Historical Review]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Singer|first=Amy|date=2004-06-01|title=Introduction|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0951896042000256616|journal=Mediterranean Historical Review|volume=19|issue=1|pages=1–5|doi=10.1080/0951896042000256616|issn=0951-8967}}</ref> and is president of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/p/the-board.html|title=Our Board|last=link|first=Get|last2=Facebook|access-date=2019-03-22|last3=Twitter|last4=Pinterest|last5=Email|last6=Apps|first6=Other}}</ref>
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== Rewards and Recognition ==
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In 2010 she received the ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action), Best Book Prize for the Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research 2010, for Charity in Islamic Societies. In 2008 she received the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award 2008, First Prize, for the article: “The Persistence of Philanthropy” ($20,000).


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== Rewards and recognition ==
She has held a number of research fellowships including the [[Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities]], the [[Institute for Advanced Study|Institute for Advanced Studies]] (2005).
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In 2010 she received the ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action), Best Book Prize for the Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research 2010, for ''Charity in Islamic Societies''. In 2008 she received the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award 2008, First Prize, for the article: “The Persistence of Philanthropy”.


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== Selected publications ==
She has held a number of visiting professorships, at the [[Boğaziçi University|Bosphorus University]] (2011), [[University of Bologna|Bologna University]] (2010), [[St Antony's College, Oxford|St Antony’s College]] Oxford (2000-1),


=== Books ===
In 2018 she was appointed to the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2018/february/amy-singer-appointment.html|title=Amy Singer named to Hassenfeld Chair of Islamic Studies|website=BrandeisNOW|language=en|access-date=2019-03-22}}</ref>
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A. Singer.1994. ''Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-century Jerusalem''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


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A. Singer 2002. ''Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem''. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
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She is on the editorial board of [[Mediterranean Historical Review]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Singer|first=Amy|date=2004-06-01|title=Introduction|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0951896042000256616|journal=Mediterranean Historical Review|volume=19|issue=1|pages=1–5|doi=10.1080/0951896042000256616|issn=0951-8967}}</ref>


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A. Singer. 2008. ''Charity in Islamic Societies''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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== Selected Publications ==
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A. Singer. 1994. Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-century Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


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=== Book Chapters ===
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A. Singer 2002. Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
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A. Singer 2005. Serving up charity: The Ottoman public kitchen. ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 35.3: 481-500.

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A. Singer. 2008. Charity in Islamic Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Book Chapters

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“The Persistence of Philanthropy,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 31:3 (2011): 557‐568

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“Soup and sadaqa: charity in Islamic societies.” Historical Research, 79, No. 205 (2006): 306‐324


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Singer, Amy. "Serving up charity: The Ottoman public kitchen." ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 35.3 (2005): 481-500.

Singer, Amy. "Soup and sadaqa: Charity in Islamic societies." ''Historical Research'' 79.205 (2006): 306-324.


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A. Singer 2006. Soup and sadaqa: Charity in Islamic societies. ''Historical Research'' 79.205: 306-324.


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A. Singer 2011. The Persistence of Philanthropy. ''Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East'', 31:3: 557‐568
the image of an Ottoman city: imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries
the image of an Ottoman city: imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries


Singer, Amy, vol. 24 (1): 52-54
Singer, Amy, vol. 24 (1): 52-54


Amy Singer, “Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman,” ''Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association'', Vol. 3, No. 2 (Nov. 2016): 407-412.
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== References ==

Revision as of 11:09, 22 March 2019

Amy Singer is a Professor at Tel Aviv University.

Education

Singer completed a Phd in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 1989.[1]

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. In 2018 she was appointed to the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University.[2]

She has held a number of research fellowships including the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Studies (2005), and a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford.[3] Singer has also held a number of visiting professorships, at the Bosphorus University (2011), Bologna University (2010), St Antony’s College Oxford (2000-1).

She established OpenOttoman, a digital platform for Ottoman studies.[4]

She is on the editorial board of Mediterranean Historical Review[5] and is president of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.[6]

Rewards and recognition

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

Selected publications

Books

A. Singer.1994. Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-century Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

A. Singer 2002. Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

A. Singer. 2008. Charity in Islamic Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters

A. Singer 2005. Serving up charity: The Ottoman public kitchen. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35.3: 481-500.

A. Singer 2006. Soup and sadaqa: Charity in Islamic societies. Historical Research 79.205: 306-324.

A. Singer 2011. The Persistence of Philanthropy. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 31:3: 557‐568 the image of an Ottoman city: imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries

Singer, Amy, vol. 24 (1): 52-54

Amy Singer, “Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Nov. 2016): 407-412.

References

  1. ^ "Amy Singer named to Hassenfeld Chair of Islamic Studies". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  2. ^ "Amy Singer named to Hassenfeld Chair of Islamic Studies". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  3. ^ "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  4. ^ Amy Singer (2016). "Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman". Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. 3 (2): 407. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.3.2.20.
  5. ^ Singer, Amy (2004-06-01). "Introduction". Mediterranean Historical Review. 19 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1080/0951896042000256616. ISSN 0951-8967.
  6. ^ link, Get; Facebook; Twitter; Pinterest; Email; Apps, Other. "Our Board". Retrieved 2019-03-22. {{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
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