Singer Amy, Dept. of Middle East and African History

Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):

Academic background

B.A., Swarthmore College, 1982
M.A., Princeton University, 1985
PhD., Princeton University, 1989


Employment

1989-1993: lecturer (martza), Tel Aviv University
1993-present: senior lecturer (martza b'chira), Tel Aviv University
1994-95: visiting fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,Harvard University

Major publications (books and major articles):

Palestinian peasants and Ottoman officials: Rural administration around sixteenth-century Jerusalem. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
published in Turkish translation as: Kad0lar, Kullar, Kuduslu Koyluler. Istan- bul: Tarih Vakf0 Yurt Yay0nlar0, 1996.

"The Countryside of Ramle in the Sixteenth Century: A study of villages with computer assistance," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 33 (1990): 51-79.

"Tapu Tahrir Defterleri and Kadi Sicilleri: A Happy Marriage of Sources." Tarih 1 (1990): 95-125.

"The Routine Conduct of Rural Administration," V. Milletleraras0 Turkiye Sosyal ve Iktisat Tarihi Kongresi Tebligler (Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu, 1990), 663-670. [Published in Hebrew as: "Village Administration around Jerusalem in the Early Ottoman Period." Cathedra 58 (1990): 35-42.]

"Peasant Migration: Law and Practice in Early Ottoman Palestine," New Perspec- tives on Turkey, 8 (1992): 49-65.

"Marriages and Misdemeanors: A Record of resm-i arus ve bad-i hava," Prin- ceton Papers in Near Eastern Studies 4 (1996):113-152. Also published in book form as Devin J. Stewart, Baber Johansen and Amy Singer, Law and Society in Islam (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996).

"The Mulknames of Hurrem Sultan's waqf in Jerusalem," Muqarnas 14 (forthcom- ing).

"Ottoman Historiography in Israel," in Ottoman Empire in Historiographic Dis- cussion, ed. Fikret Adan0r and Suraiya Faroqhi (Leiden, forthcoming).

"The Ottoman Empire as a Welfare State: the case for and against," in Festscrhift for Halil Inalc0k, ed. Nejat Goyunc (Istanbul, forthcoming).

with A. Cohen, eds., Proceedings of the 9th Symposium of the Comite Interna- tional des Etudes Preottomanes et Ottomanes. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994.

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:

Introduction to the history of the Ottoman Empire
Waqf: Pious foundations in the Islamic World
Urban Space and Society in the Islamic World

Awards and grants :

Fellowships and Grants
Allon Fellow at Tel Aviv University, 1990-1993
Tel Aviv University, Basic Research Grant, 1991
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Basic Research
Foundation Grant, 1991-1994
Tel Aviv University, Excellence Grant for Young Scholars, 1994
American Research Institute in Turkey Fellowship, Summer 1995
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Basic Research
Foundation Grant, 1996-1998

Areas of current research interest:

Ottoman studies
Peasant-state relations, agrarian organization
Waqf, pious foundations, the soup kitchen
Beneficence and charity, definitions of poverty

Additional points of contact (office/home telephone, fax,etc.):

Work: 972-3-640-9450
Fax: 972-3-640-9457

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