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Marianne Dhenin

Member of the academic staff, collaborative project HISDEMAB
Room: DvI 04-07, Diether-von-Isenburg-Str. 9-11, 55116 Mainz (Besucheranschrift)
Phone: +49 6131 39 2292 8

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Personal Details:

Marianne Dhenin completed her undergraduate studies in politics and economics in the United States. She holds a master’s degree in Human Rights Law and Justice and a diploma in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo. Since 2020, she has been a research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in the Leibniz cooperation project HISDEMAB.

Research Interests:

Colonialism
Queer and Gender Studies
Medical Humanities
Socio-legal History
Modern Middle East History

Research projects:

Hygienic Enclosure and the Construction of Modern Egypt, 1883–1936

This project traces the co-development of new public health and urban planning regimes in late 19th- and early 20th-century Egypt, arguing that they worked to construct new territorialities and social hierarchies, including racial hierarchies and gender and familial norms. It explores how interventions like burning dwellings, warehousing people in quarantine camps, and implementing new building standards functioned to surveil and police spaces and bodies that were rendered non-normative— unnatural, unhealthy, or unproductive.

Self-Determination under Occupation? Formation of the Modern Egypt, 1879–1956

Egypt, as an internationally intertwined part of the British Empire, the Arab world, the Islamic reform movement and the (post-)Ottoman space, was a meeting point of mobile actors as well as globally circulating concepts in the early 20th century. The sub-project based at the IEG investigates how global concepts of health and nationalisation policies were translated into local contexts.