Elizabeth Matsushita

Contact Information

309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright Street
M/C 466
Urbana, IL 61801
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matssht2@illinois.edu
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Research Interests

  • Egypt and North Africa
  • French Empire
  • Colonial Knowledge Production
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Music

Education

  • B.A. Music, Minor in History, University of California, Davis, 2007
  • M.A. History, San Francisco State University, 2011

Grants

  • Fulbright, Morocco, 2017-2018
  • Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, Summer 2017
  • American Research Center in Egypt Fellow, 2016-2017 (declined)
  • Fulbright Semifinalist, Egypt, 2016-2017 (program suspended)
  • Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, History Department, Summer 2015
  • Bastian Transnational Fellow, Summer 2014
  • Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellow, Center for Global Studies (Arabic), 2013-2014 and 2015-2016
  • Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellow, European Union Center (Arabic), 2014-2015

Selected Publications

Reviews

Ottoman Women in Public Space (Brill 2016). edited by Kate Fleet, edited by Ebru Boyar. Journal for the Society for Contemporary Thought & the Islamicate World Edited by Kate Fleet, Edited by Ebru Boyar, 2016.

Journal Articles

Alexandrine Tinné, Risk Taker, Desert Explorer Equals 1 2013, p. 59-62.
Matsushita, Elizabeth Fiction, Ideology, and Identity: Medieval Christian Depictions of the Muslim East Ex Post Facto 19 2010, p. 117-130.