An editor from Oxford University Press contacted me about the possibility of editing a handbook on the history of modern Egypt. Given the years that had passed since the appearance of the classic Cambridge volumes on Egyptian history, there was clearly room and..
Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang
Jeffrey Culang is a historian of law, religion, and the environment in modern Egypt and the Middle East. He earned his PhD in history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He also served as Managing Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Independent of his work in history and Middle East studies, he is currently Senior Editor at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University SIPA.
Beth Baron is Distinguished Professor of History at The City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. A former editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and former president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, she currently chairs the MESA Global Academy, which works with displaced scholars from the region. Her books include The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics and The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press. She co-edited Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender and Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie.