Amy Singer is a Professor of Ottoman and Islamic History at

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. Her major research areas are agrarian relations, philanthropy, and the city of

Edirne Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...

Education

Singer took her BA at

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(1982). She completed a Phd in Near Eastern Studies at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

in 1989.

Career

In 1989, she was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. In 2007 she was promoted to Professor. Singer served as head of the Women's Studies Forum at

. 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 , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

. She has held a number of research grants and fellowships including from the

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on re ...

, the

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(Princeton) (2014–15), and a visiting fellowship at

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, Oxford (2018–19). Singer has also held visiting professorships at the

Bosphorus University The Bosporus Strait (; grc, Βόσπορος ; tr, İstanbul Boğazı 'Istanbul strait', colloquially ''Boğaz'') or Bosphorus Strait is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul in northwestern T ...

(2011) and

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(2010). Singer is on the editorial board of ''

Mediterranean Historical Review ''Mediterranean Historical Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1986, covering the ancient, medieval, early modern, and contemporary history of the Mediterranean basin. It is published by Routledge on behalf of the School o ...

'', the ''Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society'' and ''Turcica'' and is president of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. She established OpenOttoman, a digital platform for Ottoman studies.

Rewards and recognition

In 2010 she received the ARNOVA (

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) was founded and incorporated in 1971 by David Horton Smith, with the help of Burt R. Baldwin, Richard D. Reddy, and Eugene D. White Jr. as the Association for ...

) Book Prize for the Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, 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. Turkish translation: ''Kadılar, Kullar, Kudüslü Köylüler''. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 1996. Turkish translation republished: ''Kadılar, Kullar, Kudüslü Köylüler''. Istanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2008. *A. Singer 2002. ''Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem''. Albany: State University of New York Press. Turkish translation: ''Osmanlı'da Hayirseverlik: Kudüs’te bir Haseki Sultan İmareti.'' İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2004 *A. Singer. 2008. ''Charity in Islamic Societies''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Turkish translation: ''İyilik Yap, Denize At: Musulman Toplumlarda Hayırseverlik'' (Istanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2012).

Edited volumes

* A. Singer with Michael Bonner and Mine Ener, eds. 2003. ''Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts''. Albany: State University of New York Press. * A. Singer with Nina Ergin and Christoph K. Neumann, eds. 2007. ''Feeding People, Feeding Power: Imarets in the Ottoman Empire''. Istanbul: Eren Yayıncılık. * A. Singer. 2011. ''Starting with Food: Culinary Approaches to Ottoman History''. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers. Published simultaneously under the same title as a special issue of ''Princeton Papers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies'' 16 (2011). Turkish translation: ''Haydi Sofraya!'' ''Mutfak Penceresinden Osmanlı Tarihi''. Istanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2015.

Articles

*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 ''Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Comparative Studies on Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. It provides a "critical and comparative analyses of the histo ...

'', 31:3: 557‐568. *A. Singer 2016. Making Jerusalem Ottoman. In ''Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects and Elites'', eds. Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 123–136. *A. Singer 2016. Enter, Riding on an Elephant: One Approach to Early Ottoman Edirne. ''Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association'', 3:1: 89 -109. *A. Singer, 2016. Introducing the Ottoman Gazetteer and OpenOttoman. ''Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association'' 3(2): 407-412.

References

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