Marianne Dhenin wrote their Ph.D. at the University of Basel on how disease and public health shaped late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egyptian cities. They hold a master’s degree in Human Rights Law and Justice and a diploma in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo. Currently, they are an assistant editor at the Urban History Association’s blog, The Metropole
From 2020 to 2024, they were a member of the academic staff at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany, as part of the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence project “The Historicity of Democracy in the Muslim and Arab Worlds.”
Selected Publications
Articles and Chapters
“Ties That Bind: Maternal and Child Welfare, Civil Society, and the State in 20th-Century Egypt,” British Journal of Middle East Studies (forthcoming).
Marianne Dhenin and Mohamed Gamal-Eldin. “Miasma, Microbe, and the Administration of Land in Early Twentieth-Century Port Fouad,” Planning Perspectives. Online ahead of print (2025). DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2025.2495776.
Marianne Dhenin. “The Construction of Motherhood in Semi-Colonial Egypt.” Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47:1, 9-26 (2021). DOI: 10.1080/13200968.2021.1923182.
Academic Blog Posts
Marianne Dhenin and Can Gümüş-İspir. “Science And The City: An Overview And Bibliography.” The Metropole. March 1, 2023
Marianne Dhenin. “How Pests, Pathogens, and Pesticides Shape Geographies: A Story from the Early DDT Years in San Francisco Tlalnepantla.” Environmental History Now. December 16, 2022
Marianne Dhenin and Mohamed Gamal-Eldin. “Whose Modernism? An Exhibition Review of Mohamed ElShahed’s Cairo Modern.” Hazine. April 15, 2022
Book Reviews
Marianne Dhenin and Mohamed Gamal-Eldin. “The Rise and Fall Of Transatlantic Radical Planning.” Review of Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against The Commons: A Radical History Of Urban Planning (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). The Metropole. April 4, 2023
Marianne Dhenin. “Can Capitalism Be Overcome?” Review of Mark Stoll, Profit: An Environmental History (Polity Press, 2023). High Country News. February 1, 2023
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
Women Historians of the Middle East Graduate Paper Prize, 2023
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Foundation Research Grant, 2022
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Conference Student Paper Prize, 2021
The American University in Cairo Dean’s Office Conference Support Grant, 2020
The American University in Cairo Dean’s Office Research Support Grant, 2019
Sasakawa Endowed Young Leaders Graduate Fellowship, 2018–2020
The American University in Cairo Department of Law Graduate Fellowship, 2018