Hanan Kholoussy

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Assistant Professor of History and Middle East Studies

Hanan Kholoussy

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


American University in Cairo

74

New Cairo Campus

11835

Cairo

Egypt

hkholoussy@aucegypt.edu

Education


Joint PhD, History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, 2008.

Joint BS/MA, Foreign Service and Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1999.

languages


Arabic

English

 

COMPETENCES


Anticolonial Nationalism

Gender in the Modern Middle East

History and Cultures of the Middle East

Islamic personal status laws

WORK HISTORY


Assistant Professor, History and Middle East Studies, The American University in Cairo.

Adjunct Professor, Modern Middle Eastern History, Temple University, Japan Campus.

Instructor, Middle Eastern Societies, New York University.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, American Historical Association.

Member, Japan Association for Middle East Studies.

Member, Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

 

Productions and Works


"Monitoring and Medicalizing Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt.” Gender and History. Vol. 22, No. 3 (Fall 2010): 1-15.

For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Co-published in the Middle East by The American University in Cairo Press.

“Interfaith Unions and Non-Muslim Wives in the Early Twentieth-Century Alexandria Islamic Courts.” Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries. London: Routledge, 2010.

"The Nationalization of Marriage in Monarchical Egypt." Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2005: 317–350.

AWARDS


Honorable Mention for the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in Humanities, 2008.

New York University Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 2007.

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2004.

American Research Center in Egypt Dissertation Fellowhip, 2003.