Amira Mittermaier is a German anthropologist. After getting her PhD at Columbia University, she became a professor at the University of Toronto. A 2014 Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Dreams that Matter and Giving to God.
Amira Mittermaier | |
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| Occupation | Anthropologist |
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| Thesis | Dreams that Matter: An Anthropology of the Imagination in Contemporary Egypt (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brinkley Messick |
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| Discipline | Anthropology |
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Biography
editAmira Mittermaier was born to Norbert Mittermaier, a neurologist and psychiatrist, and Raifa Mittermaier, an analytical psychologist and psychotherapist from Egypt, and raised in Bavaria.[1] Originally educated at the University of Tübingen, she obtained her BA equivalent (1997) at the University of Michigan while an exchange student there.[2]
Following her undergraduate degree, Mittermaier moved to the Columbia University Department of Anthropology, where she obtained her MA (1999) and PhD (2006) in sociocultural anthropology; her doctoral dissertation Dreams that Matter: An Anthropology of the Imagination in Contemporary Egypt was supervised by Brinkley Messick.[2] While at Columbia, she worked as an instructor at Parsons School of Design in 2002,[2] and she won the Middle East Studies Association's 2005 Best Graduate Student Paper Prize.[3] After remaining with Columbia for another year as a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow (2006-2007), she moved to the University of Toronto Department for the Study of Religion and Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations in 2007.[2] Originally an assistant professor at that university, she was promoted in 2012 to associate professor.[2]
Mittermaier won the 2011 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Analytical-Descriptive Studies, the 2011 Chicago Folklore Prize, and the 2011 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion for her book Dreams that Matter,[4][5][6] which focuses on the anthropology of dreams.[7] In 2014, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars.[8] In 2015, she served as the guest editor of an issue for academic journal Ethnos, with the theme being "The Afterlife in the Arab Spring";[9] it was republished as a standalone volume named The Afterlife in the Arab Spring in 2019.[10] In 2019, she later published Giving to God, which explores zakat in Egypt following the 2011 Egyptian revolution;[11] that book was awarded a honorable mention for the 2019 Victor Turner Prize.[12] In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion.[13]
Bibilography
editReferences
edit- ^ Mittermaier, Amira (2011). Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination. University of California Press. p. xi, 13.
- ^ a b c d e "Curriculum Vitae: Amira Mittermaier" (PDF). University of Toronto. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize - Amira Mittermaier". Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "AAR Book Awards". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "Folklore Prize". American Folklore Society. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "The Geertz Prize". Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "Dreams That Matter by Amira Mittermaier - Paper". University of California Press. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "Member Directory". Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "Ethnos, Volume 80, Issue 5 (2015)". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- ^ "The Afterlife in the Arab Spring - 1st Edition - Amira Mittermaier". Routledge. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "Giving to God by Amira Mittermaier - Paper". University of California Press. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "Past Victor Turner Prize Winners". Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "Amira Mittermaier". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
- ^ Blanes, Ruy Llera (2012). "Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination". American Ethnologist. 39 (1): 225–226. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01358_21.x. ISSN 0094-0496. JSTOR 41410505 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Glaskin, Katie (2012). "Dreams that matter: Egyptian landscapes of the imagination". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 18 (1): 228–229. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01740_30.x. ISSN 1359-0987. JSTOR 41350845 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Hoffman, Valerie J. (2013). "Amira Mittermaier, Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination". History of Religions. 52 (4): 419–422. doi:10.1086/669653. ISSN 0018-2710. JSTOR 10.1086/669653 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Paul, Robert A. (2014). "Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 56 (3): 803–804. doi:10.1017/S0010417514000334. ISSN 0010-4175. JSTOR 43908308 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Schielke, Samuli (2015). "Dreams That Matter. Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination". Die Welt des Islams. 55 (2): 260–262. doi:10.1163/15700607-00552p07. ISSN 0043-2539. JSTOR 24894185 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Starrett, Gregory (2012). "Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 44 (4): 812–814. doi:10.1017/S0020743812000979. ISSN 0020-7438. JSTOR 23280440 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Noor, Zeeshan (29 May 2019). "Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times". Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society. 3 (1). doi:10.2979/muslphilcivisoc.3.1.04. ISSN 2572-6544 – via IU Press Journals.
- ^ Rieck, Katja (2020). "Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times". Anthropological Quarterly. 93 (3): 553–558. doi:10.1353/anq.2020.0054. ISSN 1534-1518 – via Project Muse.