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Ellen Amster, Assistant Professor

Office: Holton Hall 386
Phone: (414) 229-4749
E-mail: eamster@uwm.edu
Vita: pdf 34K

Degree:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2003

Research Interests:
Morocco/North Africa, history of Islamic medicine, French colonialism and medicine, women's history and midwifery, magic, sainthood and healing in Morocco, French sociology of Islam

Current Teaching Interests:
Islam, medieval Islamic history, Modern Middle East intellectual history, women's history, history of medicine

Other Relevant Activities:
Co-chair, Middle East and North African Studies, UWM
Member of the Committee of Jewish Studies, UWM
Member of the Committee of International Studies, UWM
Member of the Committee of Religious Studies, UWM
Manuscript Reviewer, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Recent Publications and Presentations:
"Morocco," forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Europe: 1914-2004, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons).

"Saint and the Islamic City: Looking for Sacred Space in Fes, Morocco," The Urban History Newsletter, October 2006, Number 35: 1-3.

"The Many Deaths of Dr. Emile Mauchamp: Medicine, Technology, and Popular Politics in Pre-Protectorate Morocco, 1877-1912," International Journal of Middle East Studies. Volume 36, August (2004), 409-428.

"WESTERNIZATION: The Middle East" The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004), p. 2468-2469.

"Midwifery in Morocco, or How Greek ("Unani") Medicine Became Muslim," International Conference on Traditional Asian Medicine, April 27-30, 2006 in Austin, Texas.

"Medicine and the Saints: Healing as Politics in Pre-Protectorate Morocco," International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7, 2006 in Kalamazoo, MI.

"The Attacks Were a Bid for Power in the Arab World," International Herald Tribune, September 18, 2001.

"Tarikh al-maghrib al-mu'asir fi al-arshiv al-amriki," ("Modern Moroccan History in the Archives of the United States"). Article in conference proceedings of the annual Conference on Moroccan History, March 19-21, 1999 in Sefrou, Morocco.

Works in Progress
Book manuscript, "Medicine and Sainthood: Islamic Science, French Colonialism and the Politics of Healing, 1877-1935."

Book manuscript, "Kitab salwat al-anfas wa muhadathat al-akiyas mi-man uqbira min al-ulama wa al-sulaha bi Fas of Muhammad ibn J'afar al-Kittani," a translation with photography of shrines in Fes, Morocco.

"Magic of the Moors: Science, Religion and Judeo-Islamic Exchange in Morocco."

"Harem Medicine, Slavery, and the Islamic-French Family: Aline de Lens and the Frenchwoman's Colonial Mission in Morocco."

"Dawuud al-Antaki's physiology chapters from the Tadhkirat ala al-albab wa al-jamia' al-ajab."

"'Epistle in the Illnesses of Women,' A Midwifery Text from Morocco."

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