Angie Abdelmonem is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality-based violence within Egypt, with a specific emphasis on the work of civil society groups and NGOs to combat public sexual violence. Her current project examines shifting public conceptualizations of various forms of sexual violence in Egypt. Angie has a PhD in Anthropology from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. She has previously worked in Egyptian civil society for the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, from 2005 and 2006, and conducted participant observation with the group HarassMap, from 2013-2014. She currently serves on the board of HarassMap, the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS), the Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA), and MESA.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Development
Gender/Women's Studies
Ethnography
Human Rights
Transnationalism
Middle East/Near East Studies
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Specialties
Non-Governmental Organizations
Cultural Politics
Gender And Sexuality-Based Violence
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2016
| Anthropology
| Arizona State University
MA
| 2004
| Anthropology
| Arizona State University
BA
| 1999
| Anthropology
| University of Nevada, Las Vegas
