Amy Singer (historian)
Prof Amy Singer | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Institutions | |
| Notable works | Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-century Jerusalem (1994) |
Amy Singer is a Professor at Tel Aviv University. She is a leading scholar in the history of the Ottoman period, whose major research areas are agrarian relations and philanthropy.
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 (2018-19).[3] Singer has also held a number of visiting professorships at the Bosphorus University (2011), Bologna University (2010) and St Antony’s College Oxford (2000-1).
She established OpenOttoman, a digital platform for Ottoman studies.[4] Singer 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, for Charity in Islamic Societies.[7] In 2008 she received the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award 2008, First Prize, for the article: “The Persistence of Philanthropy”.[8]
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.
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
A. Singer, 2016. Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman. Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 3(2): 407-412.
References
- ^ "Amy Singer named to Hassenfeld Chair of Islamic Studies". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ^ "Amy Singer named to Hassenfeld Chair of Islamic Studies". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ^ "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Singer, Amy (2004-06-01). "Introduction". Mediterranean Historical Review. 19 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1080/0951896042000256616. ISSN 0951-8967.
- ^ link, Get; Facebook; Twitter; Pinterest; Email; Apps, Other. "Our Board". Retrieved 2019-03-22.
{{cite web}}:|last2=has generic name (help) - ^ "Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research - Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action". www.arnova.org. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ^ "The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award 2016". award.sabanciuniv.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-22.