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ADVISORY COMMITTEELEILA AHMED Leila Ahmed is the first person appointed to fill the professorship in Women's Studies in Religion at Harvard Divinity School. Prior to this appointment, she was professor of women's studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she had been since 1981. While at the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Ahmed served as director of the Women's Studies Program from 1992 to 1995, and as director of the Near Eastern Studies Program from 1991 to 1992. She was a distinguished visiting professor in 1992 at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. In 1997 she was elected to a life membership at Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge in England and also received a distinguished faculty fellowship award for the 1996–97 academic year. Professor Ahmed has been a member of the WSRP Advisory Committee since 1992. Her latest book, A Border Passage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), has been described by The New York Times as "a richly insightful account of the inner conflicts of a generation coming of age during and after the collapse of European imperialism." Her other publications include Women and Gender in Islam: The Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (Yale University Press); Edward William Lane: A Study of His Life and Work and of British Ideas of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century (Longman); "Arab Culture and Writing Women's Bodies," in Feminist Issues, Spring 1989; and "Between Two Worlds: The Formation of a Turn of the Century Egyptian Feminist," in Life/Lines Theorizing Women's Autobiography, ed. Celeste Schenck and Bella Broadski (Cornell University Press).
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