Eve M. Troutt Powell is an American
historian of the
Middle East and North Africa and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History in the Department of History at the
University of Pennsylvania. She is a previous recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
Life
She graduated with a B.A from
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...
and an M.A., and Ph.D. from
Harvard University.
She later taught at the
University of Georgia.
She was a presidential intern at the
American University of Cairo (AUC).
She is a member of the
American Historical Association.
She is an expert on
Egypt,
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
, and
slavery in the
Nile Valley
The Nile, , Bohairic , lg, Kiira , Nobiin: Áman Dawū is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered the longest rive ...
.
[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
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...
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
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