Dr. Omnia El Shakry

Biography

Omnia El Shakry specializes in intellectual cultural history of the modern Middle East with a particular emphasis on the history of human religious sciences in modern Egypt. El Shakry is the author of 'The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt' (Princeton University Press, 2017) and 'The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt' (Stanford University Press, 2007). She also edited 'Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East' (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) and authored 'Gender and Sexuality in Islam' (Routledge, 2016). Her work has garnered support from grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Stanford Humanities Center. El Shakry completed her BA in Psychology at the American University in Cairo, her MA in Near Eastern Studies from New York University, and her PhD in History at Princeton University. Before her tenure at Yale, she taught for twenty years in the History Department at the University of California, Davis.

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