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Professor El Shakry received her B.A. from the American University in Cairo, with a focus on the social sciences. After returning to the U.S. she received her M.A. in Middle East Studies from N.Y.U., and then her Ph.D. from Princeton University’s History department (2002). Her first book is a history of social science in Egypt from 1890-1945. It explores the history of anthropology, human geography and demography and looks at three major debates between European ‘men on the spot’ in Egypt and Egyptian nationalist intellectuals. These were, in the field of anthropology: the question of the racial origins of the ancient and modern-day Egyptians; in human geography: the optimal form of social organization for the peasantry; and in demography: the question of whether or not Egypt was over-populated. Her forthcoming project is entitled, “Divine Governance: Islam, Modernity, and the Construction of Selfhood in Twentieth Century Egypt.”
Additional publications: "The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects fo Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt, Stanford University Press, 2007. "Barren Land and Fecund Bodies: the Emergence of Population Discourse in Interwar Egypt," International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (August 2005): 351-372. "Cairoas Capital of Socialist Revolution?" in Cairo Cosmoplitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East, edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amart (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press), 2006.
Courses Taught
History 193A - Modern Middle East, 1750-1914
History 193B - The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
History6 - Introduction to Middle East
History 110 - Colonialism and the Making of the Modern World
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