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Emily R. Gottreich
University of California, Berkeley
Occupation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Contact
Center for Middle East Studies
UC Berkeley 340 Stephens Hall, #2314
Berkeley CA 94720-2314
United States
ABOUT
Emily Gottreich is a historian of North Africa specializing in Moroccan Jewish history. She is a past president of AIMS (2009-2013) and a former chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. She is author of "Jewish Morocco: A History from pre-Islamic to Post-Colonial Times," (2019), "The Mellah of Marrakech: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco’s Red City," (2007) and co-editor with Daniel Schroeter of "Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa" (2011). She currently serves as Adjunct Professor in Global Studies at U.C. Berkeley
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Maghreb Studies
Minorities
Judaic Studies
World History
Historiography
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Maghreb
Morocco
All Middle East
Specialties
Moroccan Hist
Muslim-Jewish Rltns In Arab World
Muslim/Arab City
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 1999 | Hist & ME Stds | Harvard University
MA | 1992 | Middle Eastern Studies | Harvard University
BA | 1989 | Middle Eastern Studies | UC Berkeley
Abstracts
The Question of Early Modernity in Moroccan (Jewish) History