Sherene Seikaly

Associate Professor

Specialization

Modern middle east, economic thought, development, the body, liberalism

Education

Ph.D., NYU, 2007

Bio

I am a historian of capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East. The most enduring concern of my scholarly research has been to explore how individuals, groups, and governments deploy both concepts and material practices to shape economy, the body, the self, and the other. My research on Palestinian businessmen; reformers of the domestic sphere; thinkers and scientists; and British colonial officers and institutions contributes to social, cultural, and intellectual history, political economy, cultural studies, and gender studies.

Projects

A History of Poverty in the Arab World (1900-1970)

A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People (1977 Egypt)