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Emily Gottreich is an Adjunct Professor in Global Studies and the Department of History, and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She also serves as Chair of the undergraduate major in Middle Eastern Studies. Between 2009-2013 she was the President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). She is also Founding Director (along with Aomar Baum, UCLA and Susan Miller, UC Davis) of the MENA-J (MENA Jewry) Program, a UC-systemwide initiative to study, document, and preserve Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa.

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 UC Berkeley in 1989. Her research focuses on Moroccan Jewish history and Muslim-Jewish relations in broader Arab-Islamic contexts.

Courses taught by Prof. Gottreich include: “Jews and Muslims” (GS142/HIS 100), “North Africa: History, Culture, Society” (GS 150), “Scope and Methods of Research in MES” (MES/GS 102), “Survey of World History” (GS 45) and “Senior Thesis in MES” (MES 190/H195).

PUBLICATIONS

Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic to Post-Colonial Times. London: I.B. Tauris, 2020.

The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco’s Red City. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007

Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa, co-edited with Daniel Schroeter. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011

Of Messiahs and Sultans: Shabbatai Zevi and Early Modernity in Morocco,” in Sites of Jewish Memory: Jews in and from Islamic Lands in Modern Times. London: Routledge, 2014.

Historicizing the Concept of ‘Arab Jews’ in the Maghrib,” Jewish Quarterly Review (98, 4) 2008

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UC Berkeley Sikh Student Association releases letter in opposition to proposed endowment (02/22/2019): On Feb. 20, UC Berkeley’s Sikh Student Association, or SSA, released a letter expressing opposition to the campus Institute for South Asia Studies’ appeal for an endowment from India. The Institute of South Asia Studies, or ISS, proposed an endowed program with the government of India on Feb. 11, according to the letter. . .The Sikh Student Association is concerned about this partnership, given the tensions that exist between the Sikh community and the government of India, according to the letter. . .SSA also expressed concern about whether the endowed professor would be able to teach Sikh and Punjabi studies without misrepresenting history in favor of India. . .Emily Gottreich, chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, said in an email that “in light of the constantly diminishing state budget allocations to our centers and institutes,” the ISS proposal “is entirely understandable. (Donor) governments or private institutions or individuals, would in any event have a very hard time influencing programming of any sort given the solid safeguards in place at the university against such pressures,” Gottreich said in the email.