Authors

Wilson Chacko Jacob

Dr. Wilson Chacko Jacob is an Associate Professor of History at Concordia University in Montréal, where he has been teaching since 2006. His early training at Georgetown University and his doctoral work at NYU were in Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, with a specialization in the cultural and gender history of Egypt. In addition to several articles, he has published a well-received monograph on masculinity titled Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940, which came out in 2011 with Duke University Press and was co-published by the American University in Cairo Press. His second book, For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World, has just come out with Stanford University Press (July 2019). 

ARTICLES BY Wilson Chacko Jacob