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name: Emily Benichou Gottreich
about: Emily Gottreich currently serves as Interim Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is Associate Adjunct Professor of History and International and Area Studies, and Chair of the undergraduate major in Middle Eastern Studies. Between 2009-2013 she served as the President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies.Prof. Gottreich is the author of The Mellah of Marrakech: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco’s Red City (2007) and co-editor of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (2011). Her forthcoming work is entitled Morocco: A Jewish History from Pre-Islamic to Post-Colonial Times.Prof. Gottreich received a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 19 Emily Gottreich currently serves as Interim Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is Associate Adjunct Professor of History and International and Area Studies, and Chair of the undergraduate major in Middle Eastern Studies. Between 2009-2013 she served as the President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies.Prof. Gottreich is the author of The Mellah of Marrakech: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco’s Red City (2007) and co-editor of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (2011). Her forthcoming work is entitled Morocco: A Jewish History from Pre-Islamic to Post-Colonial Times.Prof. Gottreich received a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 1999, an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 1992, and a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from U.C. Berkeley in 1989. Her research focuses on Moroccan Jewish history and Muslim-Jewish relations in broader Arab-Islamic contexts. ...more