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Hibba Abugideiri, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

St Augustine Ctr Liberal Arts Rm 430
History
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
hibba.abugideiri@villanova.edu
(610) 519-4683 Fax: (610) 519-4450

Education:
  • Georgetown University, Ph.D. (Middle East History)
  • Georgetown University, MA (Arab Studies)
Courses Taught:
  • Villanova: Modern Middle East History (HIS4041); Women in the Middle East & North Africa (HIS4090); Islamic Civilization (HIS4031); Islam & the West; World History (HIS1050); Third World Women (HIS4996); Graduate courses: History of the Modern Middle East (HIS8433); Women in the Middle East & North Africa (HIS8436)
  • George Washington University: Classical Islamic Texts (HONR015); Islamic Political Thought & Movements (HON016); Modern Middle East History (HIST194); (Middle)East-West Travel Literature (HONR175); Islam & the West (HONR175); Women in Islam (HONR175)
Teaching Areas:
  • Modern Middle East history, women in the Middle East & North Africa, Islam & the West, (Middle)East-West Travel Literature, Classical Islamic Texts, Islamic Political Thought and Movements
Academic Positions:
  • Assistant Professor of History, Honors and International Affairs: George Washington University (2001-05)
  • James T. & Ella Rather Kirk Visiting Assistant Professor of History: Agnes Scott College (2003-04; one-year leave)
  • Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellow: St. Lawrence University (2000-01)
Publications:
  • Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt (Under contract with Ashgate)
  • "The Scientization of Culture: Colonial Medicine 's Construction of Egyptian Womanhood, 1893-1929." Gender and History. Vol. 16, #1 (April 2004).
  • "Twentieth-Century Muslim Thinking on Gender & the Family." In Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Basheer M. Nafi. Reading: Harwood Publishers, 2004.
  • Several entries in The (Oxford) Dictionary of Islam. Edited by John L. Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • "Hagar: A Historical Model of 'Gender Jihad.'" In Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
  • "The Renewed Woman of American Islam: Shifting Lenses toward 'Gender Jihad'?" The Muslim World. Spring (2001).
  • "Allegorical Gender: The Figure of Eve Revisited." Reprinted and trans. into Arabic. al Marasid. Vol. 2, #1 (Summer 2000).
  • "Egyptian Women and the Science Question: Gender in the Making of Colonized Medicine, 1893-1919." Arab Studies Journal. Vol. 4, #2 (Fall 1996).
  • "Allegorical Gender: The Figure of Eve Revisited." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Vol. 13, #4 (Winter 1996).
  • Several entries in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Edited by John L. Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Honors and Awards:
  • James T. and Ella Rather Kirk Visiting Professor of History (2003-04)
  • MEAward - Population Council in Cairo
  • Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellowship - St. Lawrence University (2000-01)
  • Fulbright Student Fellowship (1999-2000)
  • Lawrence University Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (1998-99)
  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities (Declined; 1998-99)
  • American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship (1997-98)
Nonacademic Positions:
  • US Speaker & Specialist Grant - US Dept. of State 's Office of Int 'l Info. Program (IIP) (2001-2006)
Editorial Positions:
  • Editorial Board Member: Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2006-07)
  • Assistant Editor: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (1994-97)