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ABOUT
Elyse Semerdjian is Professor of Islamic World/Middle Eastern history at Whitman College. She received her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and her Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University. A specialist in the early modern history of Ottoman Syria, she authored “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (Syracuse University Press, 2008) as well as several articles on women, non-Muslims, and law in the Ottoman Syria. She is currently completing a book titled "Remnants: Encrypted Bodies, Gender, and Memory of the Armenian Genocide" under contract with Stanford University Press.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Law
Ottoman Studies
Armenian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Armenia
Specialties
Gender
Islamic Law
Ottoman Syria
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Turkish (intermediate)
Armenian (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2003
| Hist
| Georgetown U
MA
| 1994
| Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studie
| University of Michigan
Abstracts
“Nudity and the Dhimmi Woman: Regulating Co-Confessional Bathing in Eighteenth Century Aleppo”
The Syrian Civil War and Urban Displacement: The Passing of Aleppo's Armenian Community?
Bone Memory: Armenian Pilgrimage Rituals in the Killing Fields of Dayr al-Zur, Syria
Phantom Limbs: Embodied Horror And The Uncanny Within Unmarked Spaces Of Mass Atrocity
Artsakh, Gaza, and the Slow Violence of Genocide by Attrition
