Elizabeth B. Frierson Ph.D

Elizabeth B. Frierson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

University of Cincinnati Department of History

Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373

frierseb@email.uc.edu

Phone: 513-556-0919/Fax: 513-556-7901

Education

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

Princeton University Department of Near Eastern Studies M.A. 1988

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

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

2001-2002 Funded participant and workshop leader, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Seminar on “Public Spheres and Muslim Identities”

2000-2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for National Education Projects

(With Camron Amin of University of Michigan/Dearborn and Benjamin Fortna,

University of London School of Oriental and African Studies)

2000 Charles P. Taft Memorial Foundation Grant for Summer Research

1999 Charles P. Taft Memorial Foundation Grant for Conference Travel

1998 Institute of Turkish Studies Grant for Development of Traditional and Electronic

Teaching Resources on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

1998 Institute of Turkish Studies Grant for Acquisition of Library Materials

1998 Charles P. Taft Memorial Foundation Grants for Research and Travel

1997 1995-97 Ömer Lütfi Barkan Prize for the best article in the field of

Ottoman and Turkish studies (Turkish Studies Association)

1993-94 Institute of Turkish Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship

1990-91 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship

1989-90 Fulbright-IIE Dissertation Research Fellowship (declined)

1987 ARIT Fellow, Bosphorus University Turkish Language Program

1986 FLAS Fellow, Middlebury College Arabic Language Program

1985 Program Fellow, Yarmouk University Arabic Language Program

1981 Graduating Senior Award (highest honor, given to only one student per annum),

UVM Department of Comparative Religion

1977 National Merit Finalist
Academic Appointments

1999 (fall) Visiting researcher, University of California/Santa Barbara Department of History

1997-current Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati Department of History

Affiliated with Department of Women's Studies, Department of Judaic

Studies, Center for European Studies, and Asian Studies Program

1996-97 Visiting Scholar, Cornell University Department of History

1993-96 Part-time lecturer, Princeton University Department of History

1992-93 Full-time lecturer, University of New Hampshire Department of History


Professional Activities

2000-01 Chair, nominating committee of the Turkish Studies Association

1998-99 Chair, Biennial Ömer Lütfi Barkan Article Prize Committee of the Turkish

Studies Association

1998-2000 Nominating committee of the Turkish Studies Association

1998 Co-organizer, Princeton University Conference on Gender and the Practice of

Law in the Ottoman Empire (April)

1998 Panel organizer, American Historical Association panel comparing Russian, Japanese, and Ottoman policing and surveillance

1996 Panel Organizer, Berkshires Conference on the History of Women, panel title:

“Family Reform in Republican Shanghai and late-Ottoman Istanbul: East

Asian and Near Eastern modernities and civic identities”

Publications

2004 Patriarchal Feminism: Gender and the Public Sphere in the Ottoman Empire, forthcoming from Syracuse University Press

May 2004 “Patriots shop: Print culture, patriotism, and consumer values in the late-Ottoman empire”, in Dale Eickelman and Armando Salvatore, Editors, Public Islam and the Common Good, forthcoming from Brill
Spring 2004 Modern Middle East Sourcebook (working title), co-authored with Camron Amin and Benjamin Carr Fortna, forthcoming from Oxford University Press
submitted “Male Advocacy of Women's Rights”, article solicited by editors of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, to be published by Brill, 2004/05

in progress Articles solicited by editors of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, to be published by Brill, 2004/05

“Women, Gender and Domesticity: Ottoman”
“Women, Gender and Family Relations: Ottoman”
“Women, Gender and Feminist Movements: Ottoman”
“Women, Gender and National Women's Unions and Organizations: Ottoman”
“Women, Gender and Constitutions: Ottoman-Turkey”

submitted “Women and in Ottoman Intellectual History”, Swedish

Research Institute Conference Volume, working title The

Ottoman Intellectual Heritage, to be published by Curzon

in progress Review of Kirsten Schulze, The Jews of Lebanon: Between

Coexistence and Conflict for H-JUDAIC



2000 “Mirrors Out, Mirrors In: Domestication and rejection of the foreign in

late-Ottoman women's magazines (1875-1908)”, Women, Patronage, and

Self-Representation in Islamic Societies, Editor, Dede Fairchild Ruggles,

SUNY Press, pp. 177-204
1999 “'Cheap and Easy': Patriotic consumer culture in the late-Ottoman era”,

Consumption in the Ottoman Empire, Editor Donald Quataert, SUNY Press, pages 243-260

1999 “The debatability of Islam in late-Ottoman serials and censorship”, ISIM Newsletter, 2/99, page 23

1995 “Unimagined Communities: Educational reform and civic identity among late-Ottoman women”, Critical Matrix 9:2, Fall 1995, pages 57-92
1994 Review of Alan Duben and Cem Behar, Istanbul Households: Marriage, family and fertility, 1880-1940, Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 18:1, Spring 1994

Invited Lectures and Conferences

2002 “Vazife ve mes'uliyet: duties and responsibilities in Istanbul's public sphere (1876-1909)” UCLA Conference on Religion and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire, cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, Division of Social Sciences, Center for the Study of Religion, 12-13 April 2002

2001 “Women and Intellectual Life in the Hamidian Era (1876-1909)”, Swedish

Research Institute in Turkey Conference on the Ottoman Intellectual Heritage,

Istanbul, 20-22 March 2001

1999 “Duties and responsibilities: Creating modern Ottoman patriots in the Hamidian

era (1876-1909)"”, University of California at Santa Barbara Center for Islamic

and Near Eastern Studies, 15 November 1999

1999 “Islamic law and the position of women in Afghanistan”, University of Cincinnati

Center for Women's Studies, May 1999

1998 “The press and reform in the education of children in the late-Ottoman Empire”,

Princeton University Conference on Gender and the Practice of Law in the

Ottoman Empire, 25 April 1998
1997 “The fictions of Hamidian censorship, 1876-1908”, Ben Gurion University,

13 January 1997

1997 “The fictions of Hamidian censorship, 1876-1908”, Tel Aviv University,

16 January 1997

1996 “Cheap and Easy: The creation of consumer culture in late-Ottoman Istanbul”,

Binghamton University, Seventh Biennial Conference on the Ottoman Empire

and the World-Economy, 11-12 October 1996 (published in conference volume)

1995 “Ottoman Imperial Motherhood and Feminist Despotism: The construction of

subjecthood and domesticity under Sultan Abdülhamid II, 1876-1909",

Berkshires Conference of Women Historians, 22 April 1995

1994 “Mirrors Out, Mirrors In: Images of East and West in Middle Eastern magazines

during the early twentieth century”, Binghamton University South West

Asian/North African Studies Program, 21 April 1994

Conference Papers and Participation

2004 “Theocracy and Democracy”, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Annual Meeting, February 2004
2002 “Ideology and Ottoman Foreign Policy”, Discussant, annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, November 2002

2002 Ohio Academy of History, Moderator and Speaker, “Islam in World History” roundtable
2000 “Images and Imagining in the Creation of Ottoman Identities, 1876-1909" in panel “Whose Pictures?: Representations of the Late Ottoman World”, annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, November 2000



2000 “Every woman her own doctor: The serial press, medical practitioners, and health

reform in the late-Ottoman era”, in panel comparing U.S., Japanese, and Ottoman

women and medicine, annual meeting of the American Historical Association,

January 2000

1998 “Islamic reformers and the late-Ottoman serial press”, annual meeting of the

Middle East Studies Association, November 1998

1998 “War, policing, and surveillance in Islamic modernist state policy”, in panel

comparing Russian, Japanese, and Ottoman policing and surveillance, annual

meeting of the American Historical Association, January 1998 (panel organizer)
1996 “Unimagined Communities: State, Press, and Gender in the Hamidian Era”, Koç

University (Istanbul) Conference on Women in the Ottoman World, 26-28

September 1996 (submitted for conference volume)

1996 “Imperial Mothers and Republican Daughters: Civic identities of reformist and

revolutionary women in the late-Ottoman and modern Turkish states”, Berkshires

Conference on the History of Women, panel title: “Family Reform in Republican

Shanghai and late-Ottoman Istanbul: East Asian and Near Eastern modernities

and civic identities”, June 1996 (panel organizer)

1995 “Imperial reform and female entrepreneurship in Istanbul 1875-1908", Middle

East Studies Association, panel title: “Social Change, the Press, and Middle

Eastern Women, 1869-1945", December 1995

1995 “'Is there any future for us in trying to be ladylike?': The ethnic politics of

late-Ottoman dress and manufacture”, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical

Studies, December 1995
1993 “Mirrors Out, Mirrors In: Foreign women in Ottoman women's magazines”,

Berkshires Conference on the History of Women, June 1993

Research Interests

Dissertation “Unimagined Communities: State, press, and gender in the Hamidian Era”

Post-doctoral Censorship in the late-Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey;

Consumption and advertising; Images of Japan in the late-Ottoman press,

Policing and surveillance
General Islamic modernism; development of a public sphere in the late-Ottoman Empire;

the role of gender in reformist and revolutionary state ideologies; policing

and surveillance in Hamidian society; World War I; Near Eastern

perspectives on the Far East and the West; historiography of gender and

non-Western cultures; comparative and world history

Languages

Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish (fluency); Modern Standard Arabic, French, German (research competence); Modern Hebrew, Persian, Classical and Koin Greek, Italian (studied, basic competence)

Community Service

Presentations about Islam, Muslim world, Turkey at local elementary schools, evening colleges, community groups, and religious organizations as requested (1997-present)

UC Muslim Students Association forum on Muslim responses to 9/11 (11 October 2001)

UC Political Science/International Relations forum on responses and contexts for 9/11, co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences (UC, 18 October 2001)

Teach-in for peace sponsored by the Cincinnati Youth Anti-War League (UC, 24 October 2001)

Putting 9/11 in the context of the Muslim world (Summit Country Day Senior high students in

faculty, 25 October 2001)

Afghanistan Through the Ages, cosponsored by the UC Departments of Classics and History

UC, 25 October 2001)

Putting 9/11 in the context of the Muslim world (Lakota East High School social studies faculty

and A.P. students in history, 26 October 2001)

Islam and terror (session 1); Islam in America (session 2, organized panel) (Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church Adult Forum, 21 and 28 October 2001)

Media Appearances and Interviews

Cincinnati ABC and Fox affiliates, live and taped interviews on crises in the Persian Gulf (1997), bombing of the USS Cole (2000), bombings of World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001-2002), Afghanistan War (2001-02), Iraq War (2003-04)

Interviewed for “No Gender Gap: Women Young and Old Join in Uprising”, Andrew Chang, ABCNEWS.com (October 2000)

Interviewed for Cincinnati City Beat, (20 September 2001)

Interviewed for Cincinnati Enquirer and Post articles on 9/11, Bin-Laden, women in Afghanistan, Iraq War 2003-04 (September 2001-present)

Community fora and campus events on Afghanistan and Iraq, just-war theory in the Muslim world, Arab-Israeli conflicts, urban history and World War I, 9/11, Iran 1500-1900, Women in Iran, Women in Afghanistan, globalization and the Middle East, military detainees in Iraq (a representative selection)

Technological skills

Competency with design of websites

Competency with presentation software

Competency with design and development of CD-ROMs

Electronic classroom demonstrator at University of Cincinnati

Courses

1998-99 Training delegation to the Ohio College-Level Model Arab League

1997-2003 (UC) History of the Middle East from 600-2002 (survey, 3 quarters)

Comparative Empires in the Age of Imperialism (seminar, 2 quarters)

Introduction to Historical Thinking (seminar)

War and Peace in the Modern Middle East (advanced lecture and seminar)

Graduate Seminar: Historiography of the Middle East

Policing and Surveillance (seminar)

Women and Gender in the Middle East (seminar)

Slaves, Sultans, and Cities in the Ottoman Age (honors seminar)

Ottoman History (seminar)

New Media in the Middle East (advanced lecture/discussion)

1995-1996 (Princeton) Junior Paper Advisor

1995 East Asia since 1800 (preceptor)

1993-95 Twentieth-Century Japan (preceptor)

1994 Europe 500-1750/writing course (preceptor)

1992-93 (New Hampshire) The Modern Middle East (survey)

Women in Middle Eastern History (seminar)

World History 1450-1993 (survey)

Introduction to Historical Methods (seminar)

Other Activities

1994-96/1999 GRE Item Writer, Educational Testing Service

1994 Volunteer, Recording for the Blind

1989 Mentor, Mellon-MARC Program for Minority Access to Research Careers

1988-89 Graduate Fellow, Mathey College, Princeton University

1987-88 Organizer, Graduate Student Methodology Seminar, Princeton University

Department of Near Eastern Studies

1987 Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity/Las Calabasas, Nicaragua

1987 Co-organizer, Arabic Language Table, Princeton University

1986-88 Assistant Master, Wilson College, Princeton University

1984-85 Administrative Assistant, MIT-Cairo University USAID Exchange Program

1983-84 Office Manager, Harvard News Office

1982 Grant Administrator, Harvard University

Professional Memberships

American Historical Association

Middle East Studies Association

Turkish Studies Association