Curriculum Vitae: Jessica Marglin 110 Jones Hall Princeton, NJ,

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1 : Jessica Marglin 110 Jones Hall Princeton, NJ, Academic Experience: PhD. Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University: 2007 to present (ABD since 2009). Advisor: Mark R. Cohen. Masters from Harvard University in Middle Eastern Studies: June Bachelor of Arts (Summa cum Laude) from Harvard College in Social Studies: June Graduate-level studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France: spring semester 2005 and spring semester 2009), and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( ). Prizes: Perkins Prize for top admitted student in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton: April Hoopes Prize for outstanding senior thesis at Harvard College: April Elected Phi Beta Kappa: November Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies for essay on Emmanuel Levinas: April Fellowships: Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship: Princeton Center for Human Values Graduate Prize Fellowship: (declined). Princeton Center for the Study of Religion Teaching Internship: June Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Yeshiva University, Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies: Princeton Center for the Study of Religion Graduate Fellowship: Wexner Graduate Fellowship for Jewish Studies: Fulbright research fellowship to Israel: Harvard-Hebrew University Fellowship for study at Hebrew University in Israel: Dorot fellowship to Israel: (declined). William Lodge fellowship for study in France: (declined). Grants: Maurice Amado Foundation Travel Grant to attend the Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting: December American Institute for Maghrib Studies Grant for dissertation research in Morocco: Spring

2 Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton research grant: Summers of 2008, 2009, 2010, and Jennifer Jeffers M rad Graduate Student Travel Award to attend the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual meeting, awarded by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies: November Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies research grant: Summers of 2008 and American Institute for Maghrib Studies intensive Arabic language study grant (Tangier Summer Arabic Language Program): Summer Publications: La modernité juridique au Maroc ; protégés juifs, tribunaux consulaires, et droit islamique, in Migrations, identité et modernité au Maghreb ; actes du colloque, Frédéric Abécassis and Karima Dirèche, eds. (forthcoming 2012). Modernizing Moroccan Jews: The AIU Alumni Association in Tangier, , Jewish Quarterly Review, v. 101, no. 4 (fall 2011), pp Poverty and Charity in a Moroccan City; A Study of Jewish Communal Leadership in Meknes, in The Convergence of Judaism and Islam: Religious, Scientific, and Cultural Dimensions, Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev, eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011), pp Tetuan, Rabat-Salé, Ḥayyim Ben Aṭṭar, and Ksar el-kebir, articles in The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Leiden: Brill, 2010). Teaching Experience: Adjunct Faculty, The Multi-Religious Mediterranean, masters-level course, Hartford Seminary, June Instructor, What Every Jew Should Know about Islam, adult education course at the Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, Spring Teaching assistant for Islamic Family Law, Princeton University, Prof. Hossein Modarressi, Fall Instructor, The Jews of the Islamic Mediterranean, adult education course taught at the Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, Fall Private tutor of Modern Standard Arabic, Invited Lectures and Seminar Presentations: Legal Pluralism in the Shadow of the Sultan: Jews, Muslims, and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Morocco, paper to be presented at the Center for Law, History, and Culture Workshop, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles: April 25, Jews in Islamic Courts: The Moroccan Legal System in the Nineteenth Century, at the Mediterranean Seminar, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles: October 3,

3 Jews Seeking Justice: Petitions to the Ministry of Complaints in Nineteenth-Century Morocco, Cambridge Middle Eastern History Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK: June 14, Moroccan Jews and the Law: Halakha, Sharī a, and Consular Protection in the Nineteenth Century, at the symposium 2,000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco: An Epic Journey, at the Center for Jewish History, New York, NY: May 15, Tārīkh yahūd al-maghrib ( The History of the Jews of Morocco ), lecture delivered in Arabic at the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco, Meknes, Morocco: June 16, Charles Féraud, consul ( ), et les Juifs du Maroc, at the seminar Itinéraires d Orient directed by François Pouillon, Centre d histoire sociale de l Islam Méditerranéen, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, France: May 27, Moroccan Jews in Muslim Courts; Change and Continuity in the Nineteenth Century, at the Arab Studies Seminar, Leiden University, The Netherlands: May 19, Jewish and Muslim Shared Saint Veneration in Morocco, Cultural Legacy Series, Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey: April 24, Conference Presentations: Jews and the Ministry of Complaints in Morocco, , paper to be delivered at Socio-legal Perspectives on the Passage to Modernity in and beyond the Middle East, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel: June 4-6, 2012 From Beit Din to Shari a Court: Jewish and Muslim Legal Documents from Nineteenth- Century Morocco, paper to be delivered at the American Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Washington DC: December 18-20, Many Paths to Justice: Re-examining European Intervention on Behalf of Moroccan Jews, , paper to be delivered at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC: December 3, Jews in the Sharī a Court of Fez, , paper delivered at The Jews of Morocco, University College London: June 20-22, L Orientalisme et l historiographie des juifs du Maroc, paper delivered at L Orientalisme et après, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France: June 15-17, Jews Petitioning the State; Seeking Justice for the Community in Nineteenth-Century Morocco, paper delivered at The Second Morocco Workshop at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: December 13, Strategic Migration between Morocco and Algeria: Algerian Jews in Morocco, , paper delivered at North Africa and France, conference organized by the Dahan Center at Bar Ilan University, Israel, and held at the Sorbonne, Paris, France: June 27-30, Jewish Protégés and Islamic Law in Pre-Colonial Morocco, , paper delivered at Provincializing Europe? Towards a Local History of Maghribi Modernity (Eleventh Mediterranean Research Meeting), Florence, Italy: March 24-27,

4 An Algerian Jew in Morocco: A Story of Migration, Deception, and Confusion, , paper delivered at Migration, Identité et Modernité au Maghreb, Essaouira, Morocco: March 17-20, Juridical Modernity Reconsidered: The Interplay of Muslim and Consular Legal Systems in Pre-Protectorate Morocco, paper delivered at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston: November 24, An Unheeded Discourse: French Ethnography and the Berber Dahir, , paper delivered at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC: November 22, The Socio-Legal History of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Morocco, , paper delivered at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg s International Summer Academy entitled Living Together: Plurality and Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond, Istanbul, Turkey: September 21-28, Moroccan Jews and The True Interests of France : Charles Féraud on Protection, , paper delivered at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Symposium in Honor of Susan Miller, Harvard University: May 11, Moroccan Jews between French Nationalism and AIU Cosmopolitanism, paper delivered at the graduate student conference entitled New Approaches: Home, Nation, and Landedness in Modern Jewish Identity, Harvard University: May 11-12, The AIU Alumni in Tangiers: Moroccan Jews, French Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism, , paper delivered at Princeton Graduate Student Workshop on North Africa and the North African Diaspora, Princeton University: April 4, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Meknes, Morocco, , paper delivered at the conference entitled Jews and Muslims in the World of Islam, University of Maryland: August 26-8, L Effet de l Alliance Israélite Universelle sur les relations entre juifs et musulmans au Maroc, , presented at the Journée des Doctorants du Centre d Histoire Sociale de l Islam Méditerranéen et du Centre des Études Africaines, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales: June 15, Conferences Organized: Coordinator: Judaism and Islam in America, workshop sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hartford Theological Seminary, and the Islamic Society of North America: held at the Jewish Theological Seminary, October 25-26, Organizer: Princeton Graduate Student Workshop on North Africa and the North African Diaspora, Princeton University: April 4, Professional Service: Manuscript reviewer, Mashal/Mathal. Researcher for the Princeton Geniza Project, a collaborative project to transcribe and identify fragments from the Cairo Geniza: December 2008-present. 4

5 Scholarly Associations: Member, Middle Eastern Studies Association, 2007-present. Member, American Institute for Maghrib Studies, 2007-present. Member, American Association of Jewish Studies, 2011-present. Languages: French (reading, writing, and speaking). Spanish (reading, writing, and speaking). Hebrew (reading, writing, and speaking). Literary Arabic (reading, writing, and speaking). Judeo-Arabic, medieval and modern North African (reading). Judeo-Spanish (reading). Ottoman (reading). Turkish (reading). Colloquial Moroccan Arabic (speaking). 5

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