Chouki El Hamel

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CHOUKI EL HAMEL

Professor of History School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University | Coor Hall, Box 874302| Tempe, Arizona 85287-6505 480.727.6118 | Fax: 480.965.0310 | Email: [email protected] Website: www.public.asu.edu/~hel01 Publications at https://asu.academia.edu/ChoukiElHamel

Education:  1993 - Ph.D. in Sub-Saharan African History with highest honors: DOCTORAT de l’Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, France.  1987 - M.A. in African History: “Diplôme d’Études Approfondies,” at the University Paris I - Sorbonne, France.  1986 - B.A. in History: Diplôme “Licence ès letters” in History at the University Muhammad I of Oujda, Morocco.

Academic Positions:  2014 - Present, Professor of History at Arizona State University.  2016 (April-May) - Visiting Professor at Nice Sophia Antipolis University, Nice, France.  2002 - 2014, Associate Professor at Arizona State University.  1996 - 2001, Assistant Professor of the Practice of African and African-American Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.  2001 - 2002, Scholar in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York.  2000 (March) - Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris I - Sorbonne, Centre de Recherches Africaines, Paris, France.  1994 to 1996, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.  1994, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Fields of Interest:  African History  Slavery Systems in Africa  Race/Ethnicity and Racism  Islam and Islamic Institutions in Africa  Gender and Women in Islamic Africa  Arabic written sources for pre-colonial African history  Colonialism and Postcolonialism in North Africa & the Middle East

Fellowships, Grants and Awards: 2016-17 - Senior Fulbright Grant (The Core Fulbright Scholar Program http://www.cies.org/grantee/chouki-el-hamel)

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2016 - Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam (Cambridge University Press) won Honorable Mention for the L. Carl Brown American Institute for Maghrib Studies Book Prize 2016 - Short-term Academic grant at Nice Sophia Antipolis University, Nice, France. 2015 - The Institute for Humanities Research Seed Grant ($4000) 2014 - SHPRS Director’s Research Seed Grant ($5,000) 2012 - SHPRS - Affinity Group Grants ($500) 2010 - The Institute for Humanities Research Cluster Grant ($ 1000 stipend support) 2009 - The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Grant ($3,750) 2009 - NEH Summer Seminar (Roots 2009), I declined it. 2008 - Nominated Professor of the year of 2008 by ASU Parents Association 2007 - The Institute for Humanities Research Cluster Grant ($1000 stipend support) 2006 - The Institute for Humanities Research Cluster Grant ($1000 stipend support) 2005 - The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Grant ($3,500) 2004 - Faculty Access Grant at CMES at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 2001 - 2002 - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Fellowship ($50,000 NEH fellowship) 2001-2002 - Carter G. Woodson Institute Fellowship, I declined it. 2000 - Duke University Awards for International Travel to Conferences 1998 - The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation at Duke University 1998 - Awards for Planning New Research Initiatives in the International Field at Duke 1987/1992 - Governmental grant for higher education in France

Publications: Books: Monographs: Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam. Cambridge University Press, 2013. Paperback version, 2014.

La vie intellectuelle islamique dans le Sahel ouest africain. Une étude sociale de l’enseignement islamique en Mauritanie et au Nord du Mali (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2002.

Edited Volumes: Confluence of Cultures and Convergence of Diasporas. Co-edited with Tim Cleaveland. Trenton (NJ): Africa World Press (forthcoming).

The Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press, 2011. Emmanuel Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, General Editors. I was area editor of “The Maghreb after 1800.” I have reviewed more than 60 articles in the total amount of about 60,000 words.

Refereed Articles: 1. “The Register of the Slaves of Sultan Mawlay Isma‘il in Late Seventeenth Century Morocco,” Journal of African History, 51 (1), 89-98, 2010. 2. “Francia y el Islam: un Legado Colonial Legacy o un Encuentro Cultural? Un

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Análisis más allá del “Hiyab” in Revista Culturas. Seville (Spain): Edición: Fundación Tres Culturas, 7, 116-135, 2010. 3. “Constructing a Diasporic Identity: Tracing the Origins of Gnawa Spiritual Group in Morocco,” Journal of African History, 49 (2), 241-260, 2008. 4. “Surviving Slavery: Sexuality and Female Agency in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Morocco,” Historical Reflections, vol. 34, 1, 73-88, 2008. 5. “Raça, Escravidão e Islã no Marrocos: a questão dos haratin,” Revista Afro-Ásia, O Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais da UFBA convida V. As. para o lançamento, 2004, 31, 9-38, 2004. 6. “`Race’, Slavery and Islam in the Maghrebi Mediterranean Thought. The Question of the Haratin in Morocco” Journal of North African Studies, London: Frank Cass, volume 7, # 3, 29-52, 2002. 7. “Muslim Diaspora in Western Europe. The Islamic headscarf (hijab), the Media and Muslims’ Integration in France,” Citizenship Studies, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 6:3, 2002. Reprinted in Haideh Moghissi, ed. Women and Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology. London: Routledge, 2005, 380-398. 8. “Orientalism: Henry Louis Gates in Africa” in AFRAM Review, Publication Semestrielle du Centre d’Etudes Afro-Américaines de l’Université Denis Diderot (Paris 7) et du Cercle d’Etudes Afro-Américaines (CEAA), Numéro 51, 2000. 9. “The Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in Moorish Society from the Rise of the Almoravids (ca. 1040) to the 19th Century,” in Journal of Religion in Africa, 1999. 10. “Biographie de Muhammad al-Burtuli al-Walati” in Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara, Cahiers annuels pluridisciplinaires, no. 8/novembre, 1994.

Articles in Edited Volumes (refereed): 1. “The Tragic Struggle Against Slavery and Racial Stigma: The Ironic Bond Linking Sultan Al-Mansur, Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti and Wuld Kirinfil," co- written with Tim Cleaveland, submitted to Journal of Global Slavery, Leiden: Brill Publishers. 2. Patriarchy and Women’s Resistance in Morocco on the Eve of Colonialism” in Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective, edited by Anne R. Epstein and Rachel G. Fuchs, London (UK): Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 3. “British and French Anti-Slavery Societies and the Abolition of Slavery in Morocco” in Myriam Cottias and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (eds.), Distant Ripples of the British Abolitionist Wave: Africa, Asia and the Americas, Trenton: Africa World Press, 2017. 4. “Blacks and the Making of the Arab Majority in Morocco” in Moha Ennaji, Minorities, Women, and the State in North Africa, Red Sea Press, 2015. 5. “L’esclavage dans la pensée méditerranéenne” in F.-X. Fauvelle-Aymar and B. Hirsch (eds.), Les ruses de l'historien. Essais d'Afrique et d'ailleurs en hommage à Jean Boulègue, Paris, Karthala, 2013. 6. “Albert Memmi” in Cultural and Literary Theory from 1900-1966, edited by Gregory Castle, Volume I. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 7. “Frantz Fanon” in Cultural and Literary Theory from 1900-1966, edited by Gregory Castle, Volume I. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011.

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8. “Blacks and Slavery in Morocco: The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century,” in Diasporic Africa. A Reader, ed. by Michael Gomez, New York University Press, 177-199, 2006.

Articles in Encyclopedias and Dictionaries: 1. “Gnawa” in Lexicon of Non-National Communities and Diasporas in the Mediterranean. Published by Centre for Mediterranean Studies / Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Research, Ruhr-University Bochum, 2016-forthcoming. 2. “Haratin” in Lexicon of Non-National Communities and Diasporas in the Mediterranean. Published by Centre for Mediterranean Studies / Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Research, Ruhr-University Bochum, 2016-forthcoming. 3. “Leo Africanus or al-Hasan b. Muhammad al-Wazzan” in The Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press, 2011. 4. “‘Abd Allah b. Yasin” in The Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press, 2011. 5. “Muhammad al-Bartili al-Walati” in The Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press, 2011. 6. “Albert Memmi” in The Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press, 2011. 7. “Mauritania.” World Book Online Reference Center. 2009. [Place of access.] 28 Feb. 2009 http://photo.pds.org:5005/wb/Article?id=ar349620. 8. “Almoravid dynasty.” World Book Online Reference Center. 2008. http://photo.pds.org:5005/wb/Article?id=ar725724 9. “Almohad dynasty.” World Book Online Reference Center. 2008. http://photo.pds.org:5005/wb/Article?id=ar725723 10. “Slavery in North Africa,” Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Leiden: Brill, IV, 506-508, 2006.

Published Interviews: 1. An interview entitled “Les Noirs ont été marginalisés” with Abdellah Tourabi in Zamane: L’Historire du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco, November 2013, No 36, 62-63. 2. An interview with Brahim El Guabli for Jadaliyya Ezine. This interview provides information and context for my book, Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2013), April 24 2013: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11312/new-texts-out-now_chouki-el- hamel-black-morocco_a-

Online Essays: 2014, Online interview entitled “Les attitudes racistes sont enracinées dans la culture marocaine” published on Senenews.com : http://www.senenews.com/2014/09/11/interview-du-prof-chouki-el-hamel-les-attitudes- racistes-sont-enracinees-dans-la-culture-marocaine_89991.html

2006, The Gnawa Music of Morocco contributed to Afropop Worldwide for the program African Slaves in Islamic Lands, aired on NPR stations. http://www.afropop.org/wp/9305/feature-gnawa-music-of-morocco/

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Book Reviews: 1. Review of Aomar Boum, Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013) in The American Historical Review, 2015 120 (1): 365-366. 2. Review of Timothy Cleaveland, Becoming Walata: A History of Saharan Social Formation and Transformation (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2002) in African Affairs, The Journal of the Royal African Society, 2003. 3. Review of David Hart, Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco (London: Frank Cass, 2000) in a quarterly academic journal published by Heldref Publications, 2002.

Radio Presentations and Interviews: 1. Interview with ARTE, a Franco-German TV. A forthcoming international documentary series (4 x 52') written and directed by Philippe Lacote and Juan Gelas and produced by Fanny Glissant and Jean Labib, for the French leading production house Compagnie des Phares et Balises (Paris). This series is to be broadcasted on the French-German channel ARTE, in the spring of 2018. 2. Radio show “Gnawa Spiritual Music in Morocco” aired on Sunday, December 03, 2006) for Boston University World of Ideas, a weekly one-hour show produced at WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston’s NPR radio station. It was recorded at the African Studies Center and African-American Studies Program at Boston University. 3. Advice and interview for the program “African Slaves in Islamic Lands” for the public radio series Afropop Worldwide, PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL and NPR affiliate stations around the U.S. (2006). http://www.afropop.org/9305/feature-gnawa-music-of-morocco.

Conference Papers and Invited Presentations: March 2017: “Gender and Freedom in Morocco” a lecture at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ifrane, Morocco. Invited. February 2017: “Gnawa Music in Morocco,” a lecture designed for 24 students from the University of Chicago, at AMIDEAST Center in Rabat, Morocco. Invited. Amideast is a leading American non-profit organization engaged in international education, training and development activities in the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in 1951, AMIDEAST in its early years focused on promoting U.S. study to students in the MENA region and managing U.S. scholarships and exchanges such as the flagship Fulbright Foreign Student Program. February 2017: “Conceptions of Blackness and Slavery in Morocco,” a lecture designed for 16 gap-year students from various cities in the US, at AMIDEAST Center in Rabat, Morocco. Invited. September 2016: “Patriarchy and Violence Against Women in Morocco,” presented at the 26th biennial conference of the ASAUK held in conjunction with the Cambridge Centre of African Studies (CAS) to mark its 50th anniversary, Cambridge, UK. May 2016: “Une histoire de l’esclavage, de la race et de l’islam,” presented at Unité de Recherche Migrations et Société (URMIS), IRD, CNRS,

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Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France. Discussant: Antonio d’Almeida-Mendes, Maître de Conférences en Histoire, Université de Nantes. Invited. April 2016: “Patriarcat et résistance des femmes au Maroc 1890-1990” presented at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France. Discussant: Xavier Huetz de Lemps. Invited. March 2016: “Racism: The Legacy of Slavery and the Stain of Blackness in the Public Sphere,” a public lecture at African Studies Center Seminar Winter Lecture Series, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. Invited. February 2016: “Patriarchy and Women’s Resistance in Morocco on the Eve of Colonialism,” a public lecture at the Graduate Colloquium Committee, Department of History, at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. Invited. February 2016: “Between Slavery and Freedom and the Denial of Racism in Morocco,” a graduate seminar at the Department of History, at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. Invited. November 2015: “An Imagined Conversation between Sultan Al-Mansur and Ahmad Baba on Slavery and Conquest in West Africa” presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in San Diego, California. November 2015: “Human Rights and Gender in Morocco” presented at the ASWAD’s 8th Biennial Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina. September 2015: “Slavery and Frontiers of Freedom in Morocco” presented at Freedom: Bondage, Future and Selves in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa, organized by SWAB – Shadows of Slavery in West Africa and Beyond. A Historical Anthropology (ERC G.A. 313737) at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Invited. June 2015: A presentation on my book Black Morocco at Al Akhawayn University, invited by Dr. Dr. Katja Žvan Elliott, Political Science/North African and Middle East Studies School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ifrane, Morocco. Invited. May 2015: “Patriarchy and Violence against Women in Morocco” presented at the International Forum: The Escalation of Violence against Women in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region, organized by Isis Center for Women and Development and Konrad-Adena Uerstiftung | Rabat Office at Palais des Congrès, Fez, Morocco. Invited. April 2015: “Modern Slavery” at Transnational Epistemologies of Slavery (Panel Discussion), The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Invited. April 2015: “A Critical Assessment of Slavery Studies in North Africa” at Transnational Epistemologies of Slavery (workshop), The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Invited.

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February 2015: “Wuld Kirinfil the ‘Slave’ Rebel and Trans- Saharan Geo- Politics” presented at Medieval Africa symposium at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Invited. November 2014: A presentation and a conversation with Michael Gomez (NYU professor and ASWAD founding director) on my book Black Morocco at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, NY. Invited. October 2014: “A Critical Examination of the Studies of Slavery in the Maghreb,” a keynote address at the International Conference Slavery in Africa: Past, Heritage, Present at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. Invited. August 2014: “Violence and Decolonization in Protectorate Morocco” presented at “Terrortimes, Terrorscapes? Temporal, Spatial and Memory Continuities of War and Genocide in 20th Century Europe,” at Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany. Invited. February 2014: “The Haratin and the Making of the Arab Majority in Morocco” will be presented at El significado de la negritud / El significado de ser negro - The Meaning of Blackness / Significance of Being Black, Simposio internacional, Febrero 3-7, 2014, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica. January 2014: “Race and the Making of the Arab Majority in Morocco” presented at the American Historical Association, Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Unable to attend but my paper was read by Alice Bullard. December 2013: “L'Esclave reine. Concubinage et Agentivité” presented at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes in Paris, France. Invited. November 2013: “The Formation of Mixed Race Communities” presented at the ASWAD’s 7th Biennial Conference in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. October 2013: “Africana Studies: The Future of the Field” presented at the University of Pennsylvania campus in commemoration of the founding of Department of Africana Studies in 2012, Philadelphia, PA. Invited. April 2013: “L'Esclave reine. Concubinage et Agentivité” at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes in Paris, France. Invited. Declined April 2013: “The Interplay between Slavery, Race and Color Prejudice in Morocco” at Centre for Mediterranean Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Bochum, Germany. Invited. Declined. November 2012: “L’esclavage dans la pensée méditerranéenne” presented at the 1st colloque international Mémorial ACTe entitled: Esclavage: Histoire, Mémoires, Narrations et Création, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe. Invited. May 2012: “The Interplay between Slavery, Race and Color Prejudice in Morocco” presented at the 31st Annual Conference, Sudan Studies Association, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Invited. March 2012: “The Interplay between Slavery, Race and Color Prejudice in

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Morocco” presented at the international symposium Slavery, Race and Gender in Islamic Societies: a Comparative Perspective at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Invited. March 2012: “Black Morocco: A History of Slavery and Islam” a public lecture at Princeton University organized by the Program in African Studies, Princeton, NJ. Invited. March 2012: “The Othering of Blacks in Arabic and Islamic Traditions” paper read at the International Conference on “Slave Trade and Slavery in the Arab Islamic World: Untold Tragedy and Shared Heritage” in Calabar, Nigeria. I was unable to attend in person. Invited. November 2011: “North African Muslim Immigrants in France and the Hijab Question” presented at the Association for the Study of World African Diaspora Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. July 2011: “The Othering of Black Africans in Islamic Traditions,” presented as keynote address at the International Conference on Islam in Africa in Kuala Lumpur at the International Islamic University Malaysia. Invited. May 2011: “Gnawa and the African Diaspora,” presented at the international symposium Confluence of Cultures or Convergence of Diasporas in Marrakech, Morocco. February 2011: “Post-Postcolonialism and Democracy in North Africa,” a public forum on the democratic revolution in Egypt and its implications for other countries and the United States, ASU. Invited. November 2010: “Judicial Texts and the Re-enslavement of Black Moroccans in the Eighteenth Century” presented at the 53th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in San Francisco, CA. April 2010: “Gnawa Music: a Historical Background,” a pre-show presentation at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Invited. February 2010: “Constructing a Diaspora: The Gnawa Black West African in Morocco” presented at the Rutgers Symposium Crossroads: Migration, Language, and Literature in Africa, Rutgers University, NJ. Invited. December 2009 “Constructing a Diaspora: The Gnawa Black West Africans in Morocco” presented at the African Studies Center, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. Invited. December 2009 “The Construction of Race in Morocco” presented at the Sawyer Seminar on “Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies” at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. Invited. November 2009: “The Black Collective Identity: The Ghana Spiritual Music Diasporic Group” presented a talk as part of History department's work in progress series presented at ASU. Invited. August 2009: “Constructing a Diaspora: The Gnawa Black West Africans in Morocco” presented at the Association for the Study of World African Diaspora Conference in Accra, Ghana. June 2009: “British and French Anti-Slavery Societies and the Abolition of Slavery in Morocco” presented at a conference on “Les effets de

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l'abolition de la traite par la Grande-Bretagne sur les discours nationaux,” Institut Charles V & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. Invited. February 2009: “Atlantic Slavery and Slavery in the Muslim World” presented at Professors Von Hagen and Kent’s class (HST 598 “Europe and the World”), History Department, Arizona State University. Invited. December 2008: “Defining Race in North Africa” presented at the workshop on “Historical Constructions of ‘Race’ and Social Hierarchy in Muslim West and North Africa” in Dakar, Senegal. Invited. October 2008: “The Justification of Concubinage as an Institution of Slavery in Islam” presented at Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University, Toronto, Canada. Invited. November 2007: “Concubinage and Sexuality in Moroccan Slavery” presented at JMS History Club at King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada. Invited. October 2007: “Islam and Othering in West Africa. A Critical Examination of Mi‘raj as-Su‘ud of Ahmad Baba (1556-1627)” presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in New York City. October 2007: “Commentary on the Horn of Africa: Religion, Nationalism and Politics” in a Public Forum organized by African and African American Studies Research Initiative, Arizona State University. October 2007: “Surviving Slavery: Sexuality and Female Agency in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Morocco” presented at The Association for the Study of World African Diaspora Conference, in commemoration of the Bicentennial of the British and American Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in Barbados. March 2007: “British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society Activities in Morocco in the 19th Century” presented at the inaugural symposium “Slavery, Memory, Citizenship” organized by Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University, Toronto, Canada. Invited. February 2007: “Early Modern European Encounters with Africa” presented at Professor Adelson’s graduate class HST 598: Europe and the Word, Arizona State University. February 2007: “The African perspective” on “The Missing Pages in Black History,” a panel organized by Villages Series in honor of Black History Month, Memorial Union, Arizona State University. October 2006: “The internal African Diaspora. Tracing the Origins of Gnawa Spiritual Music in Morocco” presented for the African Diaspora Lecture Series: Persistence and Permutations in the African Diaspora at Boston University. Invited. October 2006: “France and the Maghreb postcolonial relations” presented at

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French and British Colonial Legacies in the Arab World Colloquium. Homecoming Activities at Arizona State University. October 2006: “Bringing the Maghreb to US Classrooms: Female Slavery in North Africa” presented at Slavery and Antislavery. New Research and Teaching Workshop. The Antislavery Literature Project and the ASU Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University. July 2006: “The Origin and the Formation of the Gnawa Spiritual Music” presented at the colloquium on music in the medieval Islamic Mediterranean at Leeds University as part of the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England. November 2005: “The Moroccan Atlantic in the 16th Century” presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Washington D.C. October 2005: “The Atlantic as a zone of alliance and a zone of captivity: Morocco and the Atlantic in the 16th Century” presented at The Association for the Study of World African Diaspora Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. April 2004: “Racial Slavery and Islam in Morocco in the 18th Century” presented at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. March 2004: “Morocco and the Atlantic World in the 16th Century” presented at The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624, organized by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. December 2003: “Diftar Mamalik as-Sultan Mawlay Isma`il. Le Registre d’Esclaves” presented at the Sorbonne, University Paris I (Centre de Recherches Africaines), France. October 2003: “Slave Registers during Mawlay Isma`il’s Era (1672-1727)” presented at York University, Toronto, Canada. December 2002: “Black Slaves and their Integration in the Family of Shaykh Ma’ al-‘Aynayn (1830-1910) in southern Morocco” presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Washington D.C. October 2002: “Colonial Writing on Women in Moroccan Slavery” presented for the international conference on “Women in Slavery In Honor of Sue Miers” held in Avignon Fourth Conference on Slavery and Forced Labor, Avignon, France. October 2002: “The Invisible World in the Diaspora Songs” presented at a seminar on “The Gnawa, African Trance Culture in Morocco” at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March 2002: “Islam in Africa” at JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY (DIVERSITY WEEK /APRIL 15 – 19, 2002), Providence, Rhode Island. April 2002: “Writing Moroccan Slavery: Slave Registers and Slave Definition” presented at York University, Toronto, Canada. December 2001: “Constructing Slave Narratives in the Maghreb. The Dilemma of

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Interpretation and Representation of Black Communities in North Africa” presented at the Sorbonne, University Paris I (Centre de Recherches Africaines), France. November 2001: “Travelers Accounts and Colonial Writing on Slavery in Morocco” presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Houston, Texas. November 2001: “The Racialization of Slavery in Morocco during Mawlay Isma‘il’s Era (1672-1727)” presented at NYU, New York. June 2001: "Slave Songs: the Gnawa and the American Blues" presented at a conference I co-organized with Paul Lovejoy and Mohammed Ennaji entitled “Slavery and Religion in the Modern World,” in Essaouira, Morocco. March 2001: “The Djeli of Mali, a Historical Background” a pre-show presentation at Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, North Carolina. January 2001: “Slavery and Human Rights in Africa” presented at a panel for the MLK day commemoration. In a series of "conversations" surrounding this year’s theme: "REMEMBRANCE, RECONCILIATION, AND RESTITUTION: Without Truth, No Healing -- Without Forgiveness, No Future,” Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. November 2000: “Integration or Marginalization of Blacks in Southern Morocco. Defining sub-Lineage System (al-Wala’),” presented in a panel I co-organized entitled: “Conflicts in Citizenry and Autochthony in post-Colonial Sahel and Sahara.” At 43rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Nashville, Tennessee. November 2000: “Muslim Diaspora in Western Europe: The Muslims’ Integration in France,” presented at Re/Writing Researching the African Diaspora: The 2000-2001 African and African-American Studies Graduate Studies Colloquium Series at Duke University, North Carolina. October 2000: “The Intellectual Life in pre-Colonial Mauritania,” presented at Roundtable on Mauritania for Ambassador-designate John Limbert, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC. October 2000: “Gnawa, Moroccan Blues: A Historical Background,” a pre-show presentation at Duke University. September 2000: “Racial Slavery in the 18th Century Morocco of Mawlay Isma`il,” presented at the conference “Crossing Boundaries: The African Diaspora in the New Millennium,” hosted by New York University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City, NY. June 2000: “The Identity of the Blacks in Contemporary Morocco” presented at the colloquium," Liberty, Identity, Integration and Slavery in the Muslim World." The conference was held at the University al- Akhawayn, Ifrane, Morocco. April 2000: “The Hijab (Islamic shawl), the Media and the Muslims’

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integration in France,” presented at the conference Multiculturalism, Cultural Diversity, and the Veil Debate in France Today at University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March 2000: “How to Conduct a Historical Research in Africa,” presented at University Paris I - Sorbonne (Centre de Recherches Africaines), France. May 1999: "Slavery on the Southern Rim" presented at the conference Crossings: Mediterraneanizing the Politics of Location, History and Knowledge at Duke University. March 1999: “Histoire et Statut des Populations Noires Marocaines,” presented at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes-CNRS in Paris-FRANCE. March 1999: “Race and Slavery in Pre-Colonial Morocco: the Question of the Haratin,” presented at the National Humanities Center, the Triangle, North Carolina. October 1998: “The Identity of Blacks in Morocco,” presented at 41st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Chicago, Illinois. November 1997: “Mali, a Historical Background to Oumou Sanagare’s Songs” a pre-show presentation at Duke University, North Carolina. November 1994: “Islam, Trade and Authority in Moorish Society,” presented at 37th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Toronto, Canada (unable to attend, paper submitted). December 1993: “The Transmission of Knowledge in West Africa,” presented at 36th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Boston, Massachusetts. November 1993: “The Transmission of Knowledge in Moorish Society from the Rise of the Almoravids (ca. 1040) to the 19th Century,” presented at 27th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

TEACHING (new courses taught at Arizona State University only): Undergraduate Courses: 1. African Antiquity (HST 200 - Fall 2002) 2. Islam in Africa (HST 302- Fall 2002) 3. Early Africa to 1750 (HST 307, AFS 294 - Fall 2003) 4. Modern Africa (HST 200, AFS 294 - Spring 2003, HST 300 - Spring 2012) 5. Europe and Africa (HST 498 – Fall 2004) 6. The Internal African Diaspora (HST 300 - Fall 2005) 7. Women in Islamic Africa (HST 498 – Fall 2005) 8. History of Racism (HST 498 – Fall 2006, Spring 2011 and Fall 2012) 9. Slavery Systems in Africa (HST 307 - Fall 2007) 10. Gender and Women in “Islamic” Africa (HST 498 - Spring 2008) 11. Historical Taboos in Africa (HST 498 – Spring 2009, listed as Topics in Islamic History) 12. Modern Islam (HST 394 – Spring 2013) 13. History of Gender and Sexuality in Islamic Africa (ASU Online HST 300 – Spring 2013) 14. Islam in African History (HST 302 – Spring 2014)

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Graduate Courses: 1. Islam in Europe (HST 590 – Spring 2009) 2. Global Islam (HST 591- Spring 2011) 3. Islam and Modernity in Africa (HST 590 – Fall 2012) 4. Colonialism and Postcolonialism in North Africa & the Middle East (HST 598-Fall 2013)

Individualized Instruction: HST 499 – Fall 2005 HST 499 – Spring 2008 HST 494 – Spring 2009 HST 494 – Spring 2010 HST 499 – Spring 2012, Matthew McDaniel, al-Kahina and St. Monica HST 499 – Spring 2012, Gladys Contreras, Concubines and Muslims Families in North Africa

Honors Theses Directed: HST 492, Spring 2003 HST 492, Spring 2008 HST 492, Fall 2009 HST 492, Spring 2010 HST 492, Fall 2011

Honors Theses Committee Member: HST 493, Fall 2008 HST 492, Spring 2009 HST 493, Spring 2010 HST 493, Spring 2011

One student: Mary Smiley, who completed her Senior Honors Thesis Infectious Disease under Apartheid: How Economic and Geographic Policies Increased Racial Disparities in Health, 1960-1994 in 2010, won the prize for the best thesis at the Honors College.

Graduate Reading and Conference: Modern Islam (HST 790, Spring 2003) Modern Islam (HST 790, Fall 2004) Islam in Europe (HST 790, Fall 2007) HST 590, Fall 2009 HST 590, Fall 2009 HST 590, Spring 2011 HST 790, Spring 2011 HST 792, Spring 2011 HST 590, Fall 2012

Graduate Committees:

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Although we do not have a graduate program in African or Islamic studies, I have been actively engaged in the graduate program as a member of PhD comprehensive exam and dissertation prospectus committees, and in the MA program.

PhD Dissertation Committee Member: James Holeman (prospectus defense 2011) Kathryn Sweet (Secondary Field Defense, 2011)

MA Thesis Chaired: Hannah Schmidl, Arab Spring and Egyptian Revolution, completed in 2014. Ream Jazzar, The Egyptian Women’s Movement Identity Politics and the Process of Liberation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, completed in 2011.

Selected MA Thesis Committee Member: Emmett Wooten in 2006 Thanasis Kinias in 2009 Diana Biya in 2013-14

External PhD Committees: Sharef A.M Abushamalla, Urban And Architectural Development Of Jerusalem In the Early Period Of Islam: (16-132h/637-750 C.E): A Historical Analytical Study, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia, 2016. Mohamed Lemine Hamady, Sorbonne University - Paris I, October 2004.

HISTORY UNIT SERVICE Chair of History Personnel Committee, 2016- for 2 months. I completed FAR service.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE  University Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2015- “The committee reviews all petitions for promotion and tenure and makes recommendations to the university provost. The committee and the committee chair are appointed by and responsible to the university provost.” For more information see: https://provost.asu.edu/committees/university-promotion-and-tenure-committee.  Chair of Library Liaison Committee, 2014-16 “The Library Liaison Committee shall advise the University Librarian on policies and strategic issues relating to the University Libraries and issues pertaining to innovations in forms of scholarly communication. It assists the library administration in determining the effect on collection development policy of new or changing programs, changing patterns of faculty and student use of the library and its resources, and the varied needs of the different disciplines.” For more information see: https://usenate.asu.edu/  President Tempe Campus Assembly, 2012-15 “The University Senate at Arizona State University is the representative body of the academic assemblies from each ASU campus, which consists of all tenure and tenure- track faculty, academic professionals and full-time contract faculty (i.e., lecturers and senior lecturers, instructors, clinical faculty, research faculty and professors of

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practice). The University Senate is empowered in ACD112-01 to "act for the Academic Assembly in matters relating to: academic affairs, personnel policies, faculty-student policies, finances and University services and facilities." For more information see: http://usenate.asu.edu/senators; http://usenate.asu.edu/UAC  Chair of ASU General Studies Council, 2010-15 “This is a decision-making council for the continuing implementation and development of the comprehensive University General Studies Program of courses required of all undergraduate students. The council, which is advisory to the university provost, prepares and maintains the general studies course listings published in the General Catalog and the semester Schedule of Classes for use by students, advisors and faculty. These publications contain general studies requirements and approved program courses. The council is appointed by and responsible to the university provost. The student member is appointed by the president on the recommendation of the vice president for university and student initiatives.”  ASU Faculty Senator 2010-12 For more information see: http://usenate.asu.edu/senators  Chair - Humanities, Fine Arts & Design of General Studies Council, 2009-10 For more information see: https://provost.asu.edu/committees/  Member of Main Campus General Studies Council, 2005-2010

Professional Activities:  World Scholar, Maghreb Editor, Gale Cengage Learning, 2011-2012  Coordinator of the Colonial/Postcolonial Misrecognitions Research Cluster sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University for the academic year 2010-2011 (details below)  Board Director, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), 2009-2014  Research Associate, The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University, Toronto, Canada, 2008-  Member, Editorial Board of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Journal  Member, Editorial Board of Saharan Studies Association bulletin.  Coordinator of the African Diaspora Research Cluster sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University, 2006- (details below)  Affiliated member of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2003-  Reviewer, SSRC/ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 2000

Peer Review:  External reviewer for the promotion dossier of Dr. Majid Hannoum, The Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, to the rank of Full Professor with tenure, 2016.  External reviewer for the promotion dossier of Dr. Sean Stilwell, Department of History, University of Vermont, to the rank of Full Professor with tenure, 2016.  A dissertation examiner for a thesis titled “Urban and Architectural Development of

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Jerusalem in the Early Period of Islam: (16-132h/637-750 C.E): A Historical Analytical Study,” the Institute of Graduate Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016.  Review of an article titled "Precolonial Morocco: the consequences of under- population," for the journal African Economic History, 2016.  Review of an article entitled: “Frontstage Backstage: Participatory Music and the Festive Sacred in Essaouira, Morocco,” for Western Folklore: The Journal of the Western States Folklore Society, 2015.  Review of a book manuscript by Lahcen E. Ezzaher, Three Arabic Treatises in Rhetoric: The Commentaries of Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Aristotle's Rhetoric, for Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.  Review of Northern Illinois University History Professor Ismael Montana under consideration for advancement to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, 2013.  Review of Touria Khannous from Louisiana State University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, under consideration for advancement to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, 2013.  Review of the manuscript “The Displacements of Colonialism: Migration, Re- housing and Nationalism in Algiers, 1945-1962” for French Historical Studies, 2012.  Review of Eve Troutt Powell, Tell This in My Memory: Narratives of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Late Ottoman Empire. Stanford University Press, 2011.  Review of Bruce Hall, A History of Race in Muslim West Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2011.  Review of an article entitled “Al-Farabi’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric” for the international journal Rhetorica, 2008.  Review of UCLA History Professor Ghislaine Lydon under consideration for advancement to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, 2007.  Review of a book manuscript entitled Nature’s Wonders. The Sahara Desert, for Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2007.  Review of an article entitled “French-Muslims and the Hijab: An Analysis of Identity and the Islamic Veil in France” for Social Identities, Routledge, 2007.  Review of a book manuscript entitled Of Irony and Empire: The Transcultural Invention of Contemporary North Africa by Laura Rice for SUNY Press, 2006.  Review of an article for African Economic History journal, published by the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.  Review of a second edition of Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives by John J. Donahue and John L. Esposito, Oxford University Press, 2003.  Review of a manuscript entitled The Middle East for Dummies, by Craig Davis, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Pub., 2003.  Review of a manuscript entitled The Intellectual Traditions of Ancient Africa, 1996, for McGraw Hill.  Reviewer for Contours (an interdisciplinary journal of Africa and the Diaspora edited by Professor Barry Gaspar at Duke University).  Reviewer of New Books in a quarterly academic journal published by Heldref Publications.

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PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS Affinity Group Grants “Islamic Studies” (2012-13) Affinity Group Grants are designed to promote transdisciplinary exchanges between the faculty members of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies.

Faculty Forum (a.k.a. Brown Bag Presentations) Convener (2010-14): Brown Bag Presentations or Faculty works in-Progress Series sponsored by School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. Colleagues from different disciplines participate and attend the Friday monthly meetings. The goal is to help to forge an intellectual discourse within our unit, socialize and exchange ideas with our colleagues. The series are also open to our graduate students.

The African Diaspora Research Cluster (2006 – to present): The African Diaspora Research Cluster was initially sponsored for two years by the Institute for Humanities Research at ASU. Subsequently, with the support of the IHR and other departments, most importantly Dean Losse’s office, we have been presenting an outstanding series of lectures/seminars by some of the most significant scholars working on topics of the African Diaspora. We have also provided a forum for lectures/presentation by scholars in related field. We feel that we fill a useful and a needed niche in campus intellectual life and would like to continue. I co-direct the research cluster with my colleague Andrew Barnes.

IHR Research Cluster: Beyond Tolerance: Pluralism’s History in Islam (2011-13) The research cluster is comprised of cross-disciplinary participants who all draw upon social science and humanistic ideas to inform their research. Each of us brings a different disciplinary, topical, and geographical expertise to the cluster, providing an opportunity for all of us to learn from one another. The issue of pluralism informs our various researches, yet none of us have engaged fully the Islamic concept and the Muslim ideal of pluralism. The readings and discussions will thus provide new insights into conceptualizing the idea of pluralism and reimagining its place in Muslim societies, as historically conditioned, allowing us opportunities to move beyond normative theoretical constructs of pluralism as rooted in Western, Christian liberalism. I am active member working closing with Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines.

The Colonial/Postcolonial (Mis)Recognitions Research Cluster (2010–11): The chief purpose of this Research Cluster is to explore the rich cultural expressions that have emerged in a variety of colonial and postcolonial intersections, including experiences of diaspora, immigration, migration and other forms of cultural encounter. We seek to participate in a global conversation on a variety of issues, including the effects of colonialism on cultural encounters, neo-colonialism, the impact of colonial legacies on postcolonial state formation and the influences (positive and negative) of Western culture generally in the postcolony. Fundamental to these themes and to this Cluster is the idea of “misrecognition” as it has been theorized in philosophy and in cultural and social theory. Misrecognition is not simply error or misunderstanding; it is a process by which error, promulgated by colonial and neo-colonial power, is recognized as a vital facet of knowledge, one that can be deployed in resistance to power. We seek to

17 El Hamel, CV overcome simplistic and reductionist views of colonial and postcolonial encounters, in part by focusing on the critical power of misrecognition, in part by pursuing inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to new research questions. I co-direct the research cluster with my colleague Gregory Castle from the English Department.

A Board Director of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD): I co-chaired the conference program "Transformative Visions: Confronting Change and Creating Opportunity in Africa and the African Diaspora" held in the Dominican Republic - October 30 - November 2, 2013.

Conference Coordination of the ASWAD conference in Fez, Morocco in 2015 (funds secured but the ASWAD executive board decided to postpone it).

The Tubman Institute MCRI Project: In April 2008 the $2.5 million dollar project ― Slavery, Memory, Citizenship was launched under the Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) program from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Professor Paul Lovejoy is the Principal Investigator of this project; he headed an engaging team of more than fifty researchers from York, other universities in Canada, and from universities in Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the United States. The focus of the research is on various ―worlds in which slavery has been or is important, including the Atlantic world of Africa and the Americas, the Islamic world crossing from Africa to Asia, the Indian Ocean world that spanned from Africa to Indonesia, and the contemporary world, because slavery continues to be a global problem. The focus is on the global migrations of African peoples under conditions of slavery and how the resulting racism arising from the exploitation of African peoples has shaped modern societies and may help to account for the persistence of slavery to the present. I am part of the MCRI team and I spent part of my sabbatical at the Tubman Institute during the fall of 2008.

Professional Membership: African Studies Association The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Saharan Studies Association American Historical Association The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)

Foreign Languages: Fluent in French and Arabic (Maghribi and Classical)

Consulting: Expert witness in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, August 2008. The State of Arizona ex rel. Terry Goddard, the Attorney General, and the Civil Rights Division of the Arizona Department of Law VS. NHP Villa L.P.; Hall Apartment Management, LTD; NHP Villa G.P.; and Hall Financial Group, LTD. 2008. I provided an expert report and a

18 El Hamel, CV deposition on issues of women and gender in Islam, particularly on norms and expectations of domestic privacy, security and protection relating to the gender-specific roles of husband and wife in Arabic and Islamic cultures; and the post-9/11 backlash against persons of Middle Eastern origin and Islamic faith living in the Unites States.