A 2016 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient, Anny Gaul is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. Her dissertation research combines literary, historical, and anthropological approaches in order to understand domestic kitchens in…
Egypt
From Our Fellows
I Do Not Fear from this Uprising but I Fear for It
by Omar Cheta
2009 SSRC-IDRF Fellow Omar Cheta recently spent twelve months in Cairo conducting archival research. He was born in Egypt, attended the American University in Cairo as an undergraduate, conducted pre-dissertation research in Cairo, and then went on to spend his IDRF tenure in Cairo as well.
From Our Fellows
More Than a Political Revolution
by Samantha Iyer
2010 SSRC-IDRF fellow Samantha Iyer was in Cairo when Egypt’s uprising broke out in mid-January. Her IDRF and Fulbright-sponsored dissertation research explores the intellectual and political economic history and pre-history of US international food aid to Egypt and India.