Eve M. Troutt Powell is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

of the

Middle East and North Africa MENA, an acronym in the English language, refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa. It is also known as WANA, SWANA, or NAWA, which alternatively refers to the Middle East as Western Asia (or a ...

and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History in the Department of History at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. She is a previous recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

Life

She graduated with a B.A from Radcliffe College and an M.A., and Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. She later taught at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

. She was a presidential intern at the American University of Cairo (AUC). She is a member of the

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...

. She is an expert on

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

, Sudan, and

slavery Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

in the Nile Valley.Ferguson, Susanna (host).
Narratives of Slavery in Late Ottoman Egypt, with Eve Troutt Powell.
''The Ottoman History Podcast'' no. 283. Podcast episode, 49:00. Released on 25 November 2016.

Awards

*2003 MacArthur Fellows Program

Select Bibliography

''A Different Shade of Colonialism, Egypt Great Britain and the Mastery of Sudan''
University of California Press, 2003,
''The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam''
Editors John O. Hunwick, Eve Troutt Powell, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2002,
"The Tools of the Master: Slavery and Empire in Nineteenth Century Egypt"
School of Social Science
''Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire''
Stanford University Press, 14 nov. 2012, 264 p.,

Open-Access Resources

Written interview for Afropop Worldwide, 2011

* ttps://www.afikra.com/talks/convo/evetrouttpowell Recorded video conversation for Afikra, 2022

References

External links

"Eve Troutt Powell: ''African Slaves in Islamic Lands''"
''Afropop'', Banning Eyre, 2006 University of Pennsylvania faculty University of Pennsylvania historian University of Georgia faculty Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor MacArthur Fellows Living people 21st-century American historians American women historians Radcliffe College alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-historian-stub