Laura Bier
Assistant Professor
(PhD, Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University) is a social and cultural historian with a specialty in post-colonial Egyptian history. Her research interests include gender and decolonization, the history of sexuality and the family, feminist theory and oral history. She has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright and a Fulbright-Hays for her research on gender and state socialism in Egypt. Her work has appeared in the journal Gender and History, The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, and in edited collections on the family in the Middle East and on secularism and visual public spheres.
- Contact Information
- Old Civil Engineering Building, Room G21
Phone: 404.894.6833
E-mail: laura.bier@hts.gatech.edu
