History
Marlee Meriwether teaches courses on the early modern and modern
Middle East, including survey courses on the Modern Middle East and
upper level history seminars on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,
Iraq, Women and Family in the Middle East. She also teaches a survey
course on Islamic history and a seminar on the role of disease in
history.
Marlee's research interests focus on Ottoman Syria in the 17th, 18th,
and early 19th centuries. Her book, The Kin Who Count: Family and
Society in Ottoman Aleppo, used religious court archives to
reconstruct families, explore household, marriage, and inheritance
patterns, and challenge widely accepted images of the "traditional"
Middle Eastern family. This book has been translated into Arabic.
She is co-editor of A Social History of Women and Gender in the
Modern Middle East and has published articles on women, children,
and urban history in 18th century Aleppo. Her research has been
supported by grants from the Fulbright Commission, Social Science
Research Council, and Robert Good Fellowship program at Denison.
Marlee received Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Pennsylvania
and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1971. She attended the
American University on Cairo in 1973-74 on a Rotary Fellowship.
