SELECTED CURRICULUM VITAE
Lisa Pollard
Associate Professor of History
The University of North Carolina, Wilmington
601 S. College Road
Wilmington North Carolina, 28403
(910) 962-3309
http://www.uncw.edu/people/pollardl/
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
Recent Publications:
-Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923 (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2005)
-“Learning Gendered Modernity: The Home, The Family and the Schoolroom in the Construction of Century Egyptian National Identity (1885-1919),” in Amira Sonbol, ed., Beyond the Exotic: Women’s Histories in Early Islamic Societies (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005)
-“Working by the Book: Houses, Homes and Modernity in nineteenth-century Egypt,” in Relli Shecter, ed., Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East: Houses in Motion (New York and London: Palgrave Press, 2004)
-Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State-Building in Global Perspective, co-edited with Lynne Haney (New York: Routledge Press, 2003)
-“The Habits and Customs of Modernity: State Scholarship, Foreign Travel and the Construction of New Egyptian Nationalism,” Arab Studies Journal, VII:2 Fall 1999/Spring 2000
-“The Family Politics of Colonizing and Liberating Egypt (1882-1919), Social Politics, Vol. VII, Spring 2000
-Associate Professor of History, The University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 2003-
-Assistant Professor of History, The University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 1997-2003
-Lecturer, Leland Stanford Junior University, Winter Quarter, 1996
Recent Fellowships, Grants and Awards
-National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for research at the American Research Center in Egypt, 2005-2006
-UNCW Faculty Research Initiatives Award, Summer 2005
-UNCW Faculty Research Reassignment, Fall 2004
-Andrew W. Mellon Seed-Grant for research in Egypt, 2001
-Center for Arabic Study Abroad, Faculty Fellowship, Summer 2001
-UNCW Mosely Fellowship for Summer Research, May 2001
-UNCW Center for Teaching Excellence Fellowship for Curricular Development, Summer 2001
Elected Positions
-Governing Board Member, Middle East Studies Association of America (MESA), 2005-2008 term
-Governing Board member, Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar (SERMEISS) 2006-2008 term
Recent Appointments:
-Scholar in Residence, The American Research Center in Egypt, 2005-2006.
-Committee on Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa (CAFMENA), Middle East Studies Association of America, 2005-2008 term
-Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, Fall 2004
-Book Review Editor, Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Brill Press (current)
-Speaker, North Carolina Humanities Council Speakers’ Forum, 1999-present
-Co-chair, Minor in Middle East Studies, University of North Carolina, Wilmington (current)
Recent Book Reviews:
-Beshara Doumani, ed. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property and Gender (New York: State University of New York Press, Albany, 2003), Social History (31:2), May 2006, 228-9.
-Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhaiw, eds. Literature and Nation in the Middle East (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), Nations and Nationalisms (forthcoming)
-Anna M. Agathangelou, The Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence, Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), International Journal of Middle East Studies (forthcoming)
-(Film review) Yulie Cohen Gerstel, “My Terrorist,” in Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and Islamic Societies, 3:2 (2005), 279-283
-(Film review) Michal Aviad, “For My Children, “ in Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and Islamic Societies, 3:2 (2005), 279-283
-Nadje al-Ali, Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women’s Movement (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) in Mesa Bulletin (forthcoming)
-Feride Acar and Ayse Gunes-Ayata, eds. Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey (Leiden: Brill Press, 2000), for Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and Islamic Societies 1:3 (2003): 383-386
-Fatma Muge Gocek, ed. Political Cartoons in the Middle East (Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner Publishers, 1998), in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 35 (2001) 58
-Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995), in International Journal of Middle East Studies 33 (2001): 303-305
-Sunita Mehta, ed. Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future (New York: Palgrave Press, 2002), Hawwa 1:3 (2003): 390-392
Recent Conference Presentations:
-“Making the Sudanese Mahdi ‘Arab,’ Middle East Studies Association of America, annual meeting, November 17-20, 2005
-“A Tale of Two Mahdis: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and the Sudanese Mahdist Uprising (1881-1885). A Study in Race, Class and Memory,” given at the Southeast Regional Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Seminar, Charleston, South Carolina, March 11-13, 2005
- “Manly Men or Colonized Effiminates: Masculinity in Egypt’s Struggle for Independence,” given for Beth Baron, convener, Gendering Middle East History, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, CUNY, December 12, 2003
-“Internationalizing Conflict: Marketing the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 to the Outside World,” given at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting, January 3-6, 2002
-“Patriarchy Under Construction: ‘Fatherhood’ in the Revolutionary Era (Egypt, 1919-1927),” given at Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting, November 17-20, 2001
-"The Egyptian State as Sponsor and Producer of New Templates for Domestic Behavior, 1820-1845," Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, April 17, 2001
-"The Family on Display: Political Iconography of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution," Middle East Studies Association, Orlando, Florida, November 17-19, 2000
-"Appropriated Maternalism: Fathers, Mothers and the State in Colonial Egypt, 1882-1919," the Berkshires Conference on Women's History, June 4-6, 1999
-“From Maternalism to Familialism,” European Social Science History Association, Amsterdam, April 7-10 1999
- “Egyptian Familial: The “Gama`iyyaat Ahliyya” in Egypt’s Inner-Revolutionary Era, 1923-1952,” given at the American Research Center in Egypt, May 17, 2006
-“A Tale of Two Mahdis: Conversations Across History and the Construction on an ‘Arab’ Caliph,” given for the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Lecture Series, The American University in Cairo, April 12, 2006
-“My House and Yours: The Gendered Politics of British Occupation and Egyptian Resistance, 1882-1923,” given for the departments of History and Women’s Studies, Tel Aviv University December 20, 2005
-“Patriarchy Under Construction: Gender Politics and the Male Elite in Egypt’s 1919 Revolutionary Era,” Emory University, October 7, 2002
- “Promises of Things to Come: State Policy and Family Policy in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Egypt,” UNC, Chapel Hill, Conference on the Family in the Middle East, April 5, 2002
- “Islamic Movements in Historical Perspective,” given at University of Missouri, Rolla April 14, 2002
-“ Education as a Site of Colonial Resistance,” given at the Carolina Seminar in Comparative Islamic Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,” September 11, 2000
-North Carolina State University, “ The Family on Display: Contesting Imperialism in Egypt,” November 19, 1999
- The University of Michigan, Dearborn, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, “The Family in Conflict: Imperialism, Nationalism and Revolt in Egypt, 1919,” November 1, 1999
- Government Women’s College, Raipur, India, “The Importance of Indian Women to the Development of Women’s Studies in the United States,” the Symposium on the Status of Women, January 22-23, 1999
- Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar, “The Family Politics of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution,” Valle Crucis, North Carolina, October 16-17, 1998
Languages
Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic), French, Spanish, Latin
Book-Manuscripts and Proposals Reviewed for
Oxford University Press, Duke University Press, University Press of Florida, Palgrave Press, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Carolina Seminar in Comparative Islamic Studies
Memberships in Professional Organizations
Middle East Studies Association of America, the American Historical Association, Southeast Middle East and Islamic Studies Association, Muslim Networks Consortium.