Amy Kallander

Amy Aisen Kallander

(Pronouns: She, Her)

Contact Information:

akalland@syr.edu

315.443.5883

306 Maxwell Hall

Amy Aisen Kallander

Professor, History Department

Faculty Affiliate, Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007

Bio

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.

Areas of Expertise

Modern Middle East and North Africa, Ottoman Empire, women and gender, Tunisia, French and French Empire, colonialism

Selected Publications

  • 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