Message from the Chair
The interdisciplinary nature of our department allows us to contribute to the Core Curriculum and closely engage with and support research programs and centers across AUC, as well as educational, research and creative endeavours in Egypt and beyond. Students in our BA and MA programs – and in the numerous minors offered by the department – can draw on our faculty’s diverse areas of specialization to explore questions about their lives and the spaces they inhabit through a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, and in relation to various historically and spatially diverse forms of culture, society, politics, economy and subjectivity. In doing so, they develop skills necessary not only to ask and address these questions but also those required to clearly, creatively and convincingly articulate their questions, ideas and arguments.
Graduates of our BA and MA programs have left their mark on various fields and national and international communities, impacting society through their positions in academia, governmental and non-governmental organizations, civil society, business, creative fields, and journalism. Our graduate programs successfully attract top students who, upon graduation, are regularly placed in top-ranked international doctoral programs in North America and Europe.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair
Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology