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Eve M. Troutt Powell is an American historian of the Middle East and North Africa and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a previous recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

Life

She graduated with a B.A from Radcliffe College and an M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She later taught at the University of Georgia. She was a presidential intern at the American University of Cairo (AUC).

She is a member of the American Historical Association. She is an expert on Egypt, Sudan, and slavery in the Nile Valley.

Awards

• 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program

Select Bibliography

• A Different Shade of Colonialism, Egypt Great Britain and the Mastery of Sudan, University of California Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-520-23317-1
• The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam, Editors John O. Hunwick, Eve Troutt Powell, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2002, ISBN 978-1-55876-275-6
• "The Tools of the Master: Slavery and Empire in Nineteenth Century Egypt", School of Social Science
• Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire, Stanford University Press, 14 nov. 2012, 264 p., ISBN 0804788642, 9780804788649

Open-Access Resources

• Written interview for Afropop Worldwide, 2011
• Audio episode of The Ottoman History Podcast, 2016 ("Narratives of Slavery in Late Ottoman Egypt")
• Recorded video conversation for Afikra, 2022

References

1. "Eve M. Troutt Powell | Department of History | University of Pennsylvania". Archived from the original on 2010-04-19. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
2. Eyre, Banning (3 December 2011). "Afropop Worldwide | Eve Troutt Powell: African Slaves in Islamic Lands". Afropop Worldwide. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
3. "Columns - online news for the University of Georgia community".
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2010-04-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. "AHA Member Eve Troutt Powell Receives MacArthur Fellowship | Perspectives on History | AHA".
6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. "Historian Eve Troutt Powell ." March 2022. Afikra.
8. Ferguson, Susanna (host). "Narratives of Slavery in Late Ottoman Egypt, with Eve Troutt Powell." The Ottoman History Podcast no. 283. Podcast episode, 49:00. Released on 25 November 2016.

External links

• "Eve Troutt Powell: African Slaves in Islamic Lands", Afropop, Banning Eyre, 2006

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