Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Arts A, Room A172
School of History, Art History, and Philosophy
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN
United Kingdom
ABOUT
Hilary Kalmbach holds a Lectureship (Assist/Assoc. Professor) in the History Department at University of Sussex. Her research focuses on culture, art, and religion in the Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa, with particular attention on authority, knowledge, education, and gender. She is the founding director of MENACS, the Middle East and North African Centre at Sussex. Dr Kalmbach previously held a postdoctoral position, the Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellowship at New College, Oxford. She was a doctoral student and Clarendon Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where she submitted a dissertation on Cairo's Dar al-'Ulum teacher training college. She won the 2007 BRISMES Graduate Article Prize. Before arriving in Oxford, she earned an AB in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria. She is on the Councils of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS), and is President of the Syrian Studies Association. Her monograph Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt (forthcoming with Cambridge) establishes a 130-year history for the conflict over the role of Islam in the Egyptian public sphere that led to the failure of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. In so doing, it presents a new explanation for the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood, the most-influential Muslim mass revivalist movement of the twentieth century. Her next project is a cultural history of Islamic art.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Gender/Women's Studies
History Of Religion
Islamic Studies
Modernization
Education
Historiography
History Of Science
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Syria
Islamic World
Morocco
Oman
Arabian Peninsula
Tunisia
Specialties
Cultural & Social History, Esp. In ME
Islamic Authority, Leadership, Education
Islamic Art (esp. Geometric, Ceramic)
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
DPhil
| 2012
| Oriental Studies
| University of Oxford
MSt
| 2006
| Oriental Studies
| University of Oxford
BA
| 2004
| Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton University
Abstracts
History as a Hobby in Interwar Egypt: Memoirs, Modernity and Muhammad ‘Abd al-Jawad’s Yearbook, Taqwim Dar al-‘Ulum
Hybridized Education and the Emergence of Modern Islamic Authority: Dar al-'Ulum, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizb al-Tahrir
Being ‘Modern’ and Religious: Hybridity, Authenticity and Cairo’s Dar al-‘Ulum
The Transnational Reach of Cairo's Dar al-'Ulum, 1890-1950
Resisting Colonialism through Language Reform: Arabic Language Academies in Egypt and Beyond, from 1908
From Turban to Tarboush: Dress and the Construction of Egyptian National Identity in the Interwar Period
The Root of Egyptian 'Culture Wars': Religion, State, and the 'Future of Egyptian Culture' in Interwar Egypt
