“Teaching about Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East”

Date: October 7-9, 2010

Keynote Address

“Teaching about Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East”
Dr. Nancy Gallagher

Date: October 7, 2010
Time: 5 pm
Place: Fresno State Peters Building 191

Dr. Nancy Gallagher is Professor of Middle East History and previous Chair of Middle East Studies Program at UCSB. Her areas of expertise and research include Comparative Gender History, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, and the Modern Middle East.

Dr. Gallagher teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including a Proseminar on Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East and North Africa; Post colonial and Postmodern Discourses on Africa and the Middle East; Women and Gender in Middle Eastern history.

A scholar and mentor in Middle East Women’s Studies, Dr. Gallagher is Co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, a multidisciplinary, international organization affiliated with the Middle East Studies Association, for which she has served as Past-president.

Currently Dr. Gallagher is working on a book entitled “Women and Islam: Human Rights and Activism” under contract to Routledge Press. Her previous publications include:

Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (American University in Cairo Press, 2007). Early efforts by peacemakers in the world’s longest refugee crisis.

Femmes, Cultures, et Societes au Maghreb, 2 vols. Co-edited with Rahma Bouqia and Mounira Charrad (Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 1996)

Approaches to the History of the Middle East, Interviews with Leading Historians (Ithaca Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1996)

Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health, (Syracuse University Press, 1990)
Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780-1900 Cambridge University Press, 1983, Paperback edition, 2002