Eve Troutt Powell

Eve Troutt Powell is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences, currently on leave for AY 2024-2025. Her research focuses on African-Middle East relations, modern Middle Eastern history, and the history of African slavery in the Nile Valley, analyzed through literature and film. She holds B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees from Harvard University and previously taught at the University of Georgia for ten years.

Her major works include Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire (2012), A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan (2003), and The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (co-authored with John Hunwick, 2002). She has held prestigious fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study and Radcliffe Institute, and was honored as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2003.

No specific advising or grant details are provided in the text. Her work bridges historical analysis with cultural studies, emphasizing transregional connections between Africa and the Islamic world.