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Marie Duboc
American University in Cairo
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
American University in Cairo
SAPE Department P.O. Box 74
New Cairo 11835
Egypt
ABOUT
Marie Duboc is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo, Egypt. She recently completed her PhD in Sociology from the EHESS in Paris. Her dissertation focused on social movements and labor protests in the textile sector in Egypt from 2004-2010. In 2010-2011 she was an Academic Visitor at St Edmund College, Oxford University. Her research interests include social movements, sociology of labor, workers and nationalism, protest and gender relations.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Arab States
Specialties
Social Movements In The Middle East
Labour Movements And Organisations
Workers And Nationalism
Languages
French (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Education
MPhil | 2007 | Sociology | EHESS - Paris
BA | 2006 | Arabic Language and Civilisation | Universite d'Aix-en-Provence-France
MSci | 2002 | Political Science | London School of Economics
MA | 2001 | History | Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Abstracts
The dynamics of workers' collective action in Egypt: precarization and local mobilization in the textile sector