Associate Professor and Director, Middle East Studies; Editor, The Turkish Studies Association Journal

301C McMicken Hall
513-556-0919
elizabeth.frierson@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Professor Frierson came to the study of the Middle East and North Africa after beginning to see the wide gap between reality in the Middle East and U.S. perceptions of the region in the early 1980's. She took her B.A. in Comparative Religion from the University of Vermont and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. She has published several articles on late-Ottoman politics and society, co-edited with Camron Amin and Benjamin C. Fortna The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History (Oxford University Press), and is finishing a manuscript entitled Patriarchal Feminism for Syracuse University Press. She has received several fellowships and awards for research, development of teaching materials, and acquisition of library materials for UC, and has been an invited speaker and workshop participant in the U.S., Turkey, Israel, and Europe, as well as a visiting fellow at Cornell University, UCSB, and Princeton University. She speaks frequently to community groups and the media about the history of the Middle East and North Africa, and current events. Her current research focuses on popular culture, cities, atrocities, memory, and identity formation.

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University Department of Near Eastern Studies, 1996.

M.A., Princeton University Department of Near Eastern Studies, 1989.

B.A., University of Vermont Department of Comparative Religion, 1981.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (2009). (In Progress). Patriarchal Feminism: Gender and the Public Sphere in the Ottoman Empire.

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (1995). “Unimagined Communities: Educational reform and civic identity among late-Ottoman women”. Critical Matrix, 9 (2), 57.

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (1994). Review of Alan Duben and Cem Behar, Istanbul Households: Marriage, family and fertility, 1880-1940 . Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 18 (1).

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (1999). "The debatability of Islam in late-Ottoman serials and censorship". ISIM Newsletter, 2, 23.

Books

Amin, Camron, Benjamin C. Fortna, Elizabeth B. Frierson (2006). The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History. Oxford: Oxford.

Book Chapters

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (1999). “‘Cheap and Easy’: Patriotic consumer culture in the late-Ottoman era”. Quataert, Donald (Eds.), Consumption in the Ottoman Empire, . (pp. 243). New York: SUNY Press.

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (2000). “Mirrors Out, Mirrors In: Domestication and rejection of the foreign in late-Ottoman women's magazines (1875-1908). D. Fairchild Ruggles (Eds.), Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies. (pp. 177). New York: SUNY Press.

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (2004). "Patriots shop: Print culture, patriotism, and consumer values in the late-Ottoman empire". Eickelmann, Dale F. and Armando Salvatore (Eds.), Public Islam and the Common Good. Leiden: Brill.

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (2005). Women in Ottoman Intellectual History. Ozdalga, Elisabeth (Eds.), Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Heritage. London: Routledge.

Encyclopedia Articles

Frierson, Elizabeth B. (2005). "Male Advocacy of Women's Rights". In Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures. Leiden: Brill.

Invited Presentations

Courses Taught

History of the Middle East and North Africa in 3 quarters: 600-1258 c.e,, 1258-1850, 1850 to the present.

War and Peace in the Modern Middle East .

Identity Formation in the Modern Middle East .

Atrocities and Memory in the Modern Middle East (graduate).

Comparative Studies in Modern European and Middle Eastern Cities (graduate).

History of Media in the Modern Middle East .

History of Film in the Modern Middle East.

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