Hannah Elsisi is a social, intellectual and gender historian of the Middle East and North Africa in the world. Their research, teaching and academic service focus on global histories of capitalist, carceral, racialised and gendered regimes of power, mobility and subjectivity. Hannah is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College.

From 2020-2022 Hannah was a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge where she remains affiliate Lecturer and fellow in college, History Faculty and Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Gender Studies. Hannah was previously Lecturer in Middle East History at King’s College London (2018-2020) and took her PhD in History from Merton College, Oxford University in 2020 (over zoom!). Her thesis was awarded the Malcolm Kerr and Leigh Douglas awards for best dissertation in Middle East Studies by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and the British Society of Middle East Studies (BRISMES). Hannah has wrapped up that project (and carceral stint) with two forthcoming books: Lovers in the Citadel: Prisons, Gender and Other Architectures of Subjection in Egypt and Behind the Sun: Prison Writing in an Egyptian Century, and is excited to move to more sanguine pastures with a new project Chromosthesisa: Sonic Rights and Labour in the Global Mangrove Archipelago.