I specialize in the social and cultural history of modern Egypt with a focus on gender and sexuality. My research interests include the role of race and gender in the historical development of capitalism, transnational discourses of crime and criminality, labor migration in the Mediterranean world, gendered violence, and global feminisms. My first book, The Serial Murder Case of Raya and Sakina: Femicide in Occupied Egypt (UT Press, forthcoming 2027), analyzes how wartime colonial exploitation led to a series of femicides in the port city of Alexandria in 1920, and how the coloniality of gender shaped the prosecution and popular portrayals of the femicide case.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, College - Department of History