Rate My Professor Amy Kallander

Her first book, Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia (University of Texas Press, 2013), offers a social history of women and the family that governed Tunisia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her second monograph, Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s (Cambridge University Press, 2021), explores these themes in depth. Key publications include “Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation: Tunisia and France in the 1960s” in French Politics, Culture, and Society (2021); “Miniskirts and ‘Beatniks’: Gender Roles, National Development, and Morals in 1960s Tunisia” in International Journal of Middle East Studies (2018); “Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East” (co-authored with L. Kozma) in American Historical Review (2018); and contributions to edited volumes such as The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities (2024) and A Companion to Global Gender History (2020). Her writing has appeared in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Report Online, Arab Media & Society, and other outlets, contributing to understandings of gender, nationalism, and colonialism in the Middle East.