Amy Aisen Kallander

• 2025 Spring
  • HST 496 Distinction Thesis in History
  • HST 407 Iraq: Modern Nation to US Occupation
  • HST 374 Popular Culture in the Middle East
• 2024 Fall
  • HST/WGS 379 Gender, Race, and Colonialism
  • HST 300 Selected Topics - AbsentPresence:Hist Palestine
• 2024 Spring
  • IRP 499 Honors Capstone Project
  • HST 644 Israel and Palestine: Historical Approaches
  • MES 400 Selected Topics in Middle Eastern Studies - Israel & Palestine:Hist Approa
  • HST 401 Senior Seminar - RaceIdentity&Migr.inMdrnWrld
• 2023 Fall
  • HST/WGS 379 Gender, Race, and Colonialism
  • HST/MES 317 The Arab Revolutions
• 2023 Spring
  • HST 407 Iraq: Modern Nation to US Occupation
  • REL 100 Selected Topics - Muslims in Music,Movies,Media
  • HST 100 Selected Topics - MuslimsinMusic,Movies&Media

Amy Kallander is a historian of the early modern and modern Middle East and affiliated faculty with Women’s and Gender Studies. Her current research, "Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s" (Cambridge University Press, 2021) explores the importance of modern womanhood and women to postcolonial state and society. Considering Cold War alliances, family planning, feminist academics, fashion and love, this book traces state feminism into domestic and international politics, economic development, intellectual conversations, cultural expressions and social shifts during an era of radical political change and women’s rights activism across the Middle East.

Her first book, "Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia" (University of Texas Press, 2013) is a social history of women and the family that governed Tunisia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her writing on modern Tunisia has appeared in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Report Online, Arab Media & Society, and Nouri Gana ed. "The Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects" (Edinburgh University Press 2013).

Kallander teaches courses on the Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East, the Arab Revolutions, popular culture, women and gender in Middle East history, Palestine and Israel, and gender and race in European colonial empires.

Sponsored by Writing Across the Curriculum.

• Books
  • Kallander, A. A., Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s. Cambridge University Press , 2021.
  • Kallander, A. A., Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • Kallander, A. A., Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia. University of Texas Press, 2013.
  • Kallander, A. A., Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia. University of Texas Press, 2013.
• Journal Articles
  • Kallander, A. A., "Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation: Tunisia and France in the 1960s." French Politics, Culture, and Society, 2021.
  • Vince, N., Kallander, A. A., "Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria." Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2019.
  • Wolf, A., Kallander, A. A., "Political Islam in Tunisia: The History of Ennadha." Middle East Studies, 2019.
  • Kallander, A. A., "Miniskirts and ‘Beatniks’: Gender Roles, National Development, and Morals in 1960s Tunisia." In International Journal of Middle East Studies. , 2018.
  • Park, R., Kallander, A. A., "Medical Imperialism in French North Africa; Regenerating the Jewish Community in Colonial Tunisia." The Historian, 2018.
  • Kallander, A. A., "Miniskirts and 'Beatniks': Gender Roles, National Development, and Morals in 1960s Tunisia." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2018.
  • Kozma, L., Kallander, A. A., "Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East." American Historical Review, 2018.
• Book Chapters
  • Said, K., Kallander, A., "Masculinities and Racial Terms of Belonging in Post-colonial Tunis." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities. Springer International Publishing, 2024.
  • Kallander, A. A., "Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation: Tunisia and France in the 1960s." In French Politics, Culture, and Society. , 2021.
  • Wiesner-Hanks, M., Kallander, A. A. and Meade, T., "Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East, 1400-1750)." In Companion to Global Gender History. , 2021.
  • Kallander, A., "Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East." In A Companion to Global Gender History. Wiley, 2020.
  • Kallander, A. A., Demir, D. C. and Karahasanoglu, S., "Consumption at the beylical court of Tunis, 1750-1850." In History from Below: A Tribute in Memory of Donald Quataert. Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2016.
  • Demir, D. C., Karahasanoglu, S. and Kallander, A. A., "Consumption at the beylical court of Tunis, 1750-1850,." In in Deniz Cenk Demir and Selim Karahasanoglu. Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2016.
  • Gana, N., Kallander, A. A., "Friends of Tunisia”: French economic and diplomatic support of Tunisian authoritarianism." In Edinburgh University Press. , 2013.
• Book Reviews
  • Kallander, A. A., Makdisi, U., "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World." In Toynbee Prize Foundation Blog . , 2022.
  • Kallander, A. A., Gerschultz, J., "Decorative Arts of the Tunisian école: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power." In African Arts. , 2022.
  • Gerschultz, J., Kallander, A. A., "Decorative Arts of the Tunisian école: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power." In African Arts. , 2022.
  • Kallander, A. A., Blili, L. T., "The Regency of Tunis, 1535-1666: Genesis of an Ottoman Province in the Maghreb." In International Journal of Middle East Studies. , 2022.
  • Temime, L., Kallander, A. A., "The Regency of Tunis, 1535-1666: Genesis of an Ottoman Province in the Maghreb." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2022.
  • Kallander, A. A., Rey, V., "Mediating Museums: Exhibiting Material Culture in Tunisia." In Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines. , 2020.
  • Rey, V., Kallander, A. A., "Mediating Museums: Exhibiting Material Culture in Tunisia (1881–2016)." In Journal of African Studies/Revue. , 2020.

American Historical Association annual meeting, AHA, "Breaking the Waves: Women's Activism in 20th-Century Southwest Asia and North Africa - discussant" (January 4, 2025)

Doing Research in/on North Africa: Methodological Reflections, Center for Middle East and North African Studies, "Reflections on the Archive and Research Methods in Tunisia" (October, 2024 - October, 2024)

Conversation on Palestine and Lebanon (September, 2024)

Teach-In on Palestine, Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, "Histories of Resistance" (February, 2024)

Middle East Studies Association, annual conference, "Race, Empire, and French Carceral Practices in Tunisia" (November, 2023)

Middle East Studies Association, annual meeting, "Romantic love, sex, emotions, modern womanhood" (November, 2023)

Bourguiba, le fondateur, Beit al-Hikma (Tunisian Academy of Letters, Sciences, Arts), "Développement, le planning familial, et les limites du modèle libérale" (June, 2023)

Legacies of Eugenics Symposium, Oxford Brooks University, "Population Policy in Postcolonial Tunisia" (October, 2022)

Sciences Politique, "Femme, féminisme, et état moderne : la Tunisie des années 1960" (May, 2022 - May, 2022)

"Tunisia’s Modern Woman" (May, 2022 - May, 2022)

Said, K., Kallander, A. A., Center for Middle East Studies Annual Conference, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, "Embodied Masculinities: Navigating Manhood and Identity in Tunis and its Periphery" (February, 2022)

The Middle East c.1960-1980, Global and Transnational Perspectives, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, "Gender, Transnational Alliances, and Cultural Decolonization: Tunisian Women in the Global 1960s" (November, 2021 - November, 2021)

Decolonization, Development and State Building in North Africa, Brown University , "Family Planning and Maghrebi Demography: between National Development and Transnational Collaboration" (September, 2020 - September, 2020)