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2021 CHASS INT NORTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Hafez, Sherine

Assistant Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Women's Studies


Biography

Professor Hafez joins us from the American University in Cairo where she held an appointment in the Anthropology department. With a doctorate in Anthropology from UC Davis, an M.A. from the American University in Cairo and a graduate degree from the Institute of Gender and Sexuality, Amsterdam University, Professor Hafez's interests center on women in Arab and Middle Eastern cultures, women's Islamic activism, post colonialism, modernity and the female desiring subject. Specifically, her ethnographic research deals with women's Islamic movements in Egypt, which pays particular attention to the contributions of critical theory. Her published work includes, The Terms of Empowerment: Islamic Women's Activism in Cairo, which critically inquires into liberal feminist representations of women's engagement in Islamic activism in the region. She is currently at work on a manuscript for her new book focusing on the production of female subjectivity in Islamic movements.

Degrees

PhD Anthropology 2007

UC Davis

MA Anthropology 2001

American University in Cairo

BA Egyptology 1987

American University in Cairo

Research Area

Middle East Studies, Post-colonial Theory, and Islamic Societies and Cultures

Publications

"The Terms of Empowerment: Islamic Women Activists in Egypt" Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2003