Soha Bayoumi Email: sbayoumi@fas.harvard.edu Website: http://scholar.harvard.edu/sbayoumi/ Academic Degrees PhD in political science, specialization: political thought, Paris Institut d Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po). Title of dissertation: Between liberalism and social-democracy: a critique of contemporary debates on justice, 2012 MA in political theory and history, Paris Institut d Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) - Title of dissertation: American and European liberalisms: a comparative and critical analysis, 2005 BA with Honors in political science and economics, Cairo University s French Department of Economics and Political Science, 2004 Publications With Sherine Hamdy, Doctors of the Revolution: Medicine and Politics in Revolutionary Egypt (Working Title), Book manuscript in preparation Are Socialists Liberal? Towards a Post-Liberal Socialism (Working Title), Book manuscript in preparation Les socialistes, sont-ils libéraux? De l Egypte, des camps politiques et des convergences intellectuelles, Raisons Politiques, Forthcoming With Sherine Hamdy, Egypt's Popular Uprising and the Stakes of Medical Neutrality, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Forthcoming Mr. Darwin Goes to the Middle East: Review of of Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950, by Marwa Elshakry, Endeavour, Vol. 38, Issues 3-4, September-December 2014 With Sherine Hamdy, Doctors of the Revolution, Cosmologics: a Magazine of Science, Religion and Culture, July 2014 With Ahmed Ragab, The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas. Milan, Italy: Leonardo 3, 2009 (Editing and translation to English and French of a medieval Andalusian manuscript) Egyptian Views of the EU: Pragmatic, Paternalistic and Partnership Concerns, European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 12, No. 3, August 2007 1
The External Image of the European Union: the Case of Egypt, Garnet Working Papers, No. 17/07, 2007 Review of S. Neil MacFarlane and Yen Foong Khong, Human Security and the UN: A Critical History, Human Security Journal, Vol 1, No. 3, June 2007 European Citizenship and the Legitimization of European Politics, Joint Sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research, 2006 Talks With Sherine Hamdy, Sexual Assault as Political Weapon in Egypt s Popular Uprisings, Reproductive Health Working Group in the Arab World and Turkey, Dhour Choeuir, Lebanon, June 2015 Egyptian Doctors Fight for Health and Social Justice: The Paradox of the Activist-Expert, Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Faculty Seminar Series, Harvard University, April 2015 O, patient, our strike is for you! Egyptian Doctors Fight for Better Health: A Sisyphean Battle? Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon, March 2015 With Sherine Hamdy, Doctors of the Revolution: Egypt s Medics and Their Fight for Health and Social Justice, Brown University, May 2014 Contextualizing Bioethics: The Social Science Critique of Bioethics, Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society, April 2014 With Sherine Hamdy, Doctors of the Revolution: Egypt s Political Uprisings and the Limits of Medical Neutrality, STS Circle, Harvard University, April 2014 With Sherine Hamdy, Doctors of the Revolution: Egypt s Political Uprisings and the Limits of Medical Neutrality, CUNY Graduate Center, February 2014 Is Bioethics Political? Political Philosophy and Bioethics, Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society, February 2013 The Forces Behind the Egyptian Revolution, Groton Public Library in collaboration with Harvard University s Outreach Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, February 5, 2012 The External Image of the European Union: the Case of Egypt presented at the 4th General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research in Pisa, September 6-8, 2007 2
Survey on the External Image of the EU in Egypt, presented at the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War, Florence, Italy, in collaboration with the European Research Network (Garnet), October 2-3, 2006 Teaching Lecturer - Bodies in Flux: Bodies, Genders and Sexualities in the Modern Middle East, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Spring 2015, Fall 2015 Lecturer - HISTSCI 166/HDS 3302 What is Enlightenment? Science, Religion and the Making of Modernity, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015 Lecturer - SSCI E-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, Harvard Extension School, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015 Lecturer - FRSEMR 22 Justice in Health: Ethics of Public Health in the Contemporary World, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Fall 2014 Lecturer - HISTSCI 196 Justice in Health: Ethics of Public Health in the Contemporary World, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Spring 2013, Spring 2014 Lecturer - HSCI E-122/W Justice in Health: Ethics of Public Health in the Contemporary World, Harvard Extension School, Fall 2012 Lecturer - HISTSCI 195 Taking Science to The People: Popularization of Science in The Modern Arab World, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University - Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant - Arabic 241ar Advanced Modern Arabic Bridge: Language, Literature, and Culture I - Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University - Fall 2010, Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant - Arabic 131 Upper-Level Modern Arabic l - Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant - 135 Colloquial Egyptian Arabic - Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Spring 2010 3
Academic and Professional Experience and Affiliations Lecturer in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, since July 2011 Lecturer at Harvard Extension School, since January 2012 Teaching assistant in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, January 2010-June 2012 Doctoral researcher at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Center for Political Research), Paris, France, 2005-2012 Visiting fellow in the Department of Government, FAS, Harvard University, September 2007 - June 2008 Researcher in the External image of Italy project coordinated by the University of Pisa, Italy, July 2007 - February 2008 Head instructor at the Creative Learning Center, Cairo, Egypt, June - August 2007 Visiting doctoral researcher in the Political and Social Science Department of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, January - June 2007 In charge of documentation in the Library of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, France, September 2005 - September 2006 In charge of associative development in the International Coalition for the UN Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, Paris, France, March 2005 - October 2006 Research assistant in a Project on the Concept and Philosophy of Dialogue in the Center for Dialogue of Civilizations, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, May 2003 - January 2004 Editor and translator for the review of the Afro-Asian Peoples s Solidarity Organization, Cairo, Egypt, 1998-2004 Researcher at the Cooperation Office of the Italian Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, in the framework of the Italian Presidency of the European Union, June - December 2003 Coordinator, Globalization and culture in the Arab world, sponsored by CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), April - November 2003 4
Awards and Grants Recipient of the Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2011 Fellowship of the Center of the Americas, Sciences Po Paris, France, for research in American studies for 2007-2008 Research grant of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Egyptian researchers, Spring 2007 Eiffel Excellence award of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for international researchers, 2004-2005 Languages Reading, writing, speaking; scale: 1 (beginning); 2 (intermediate); 3 (advanced); 4 (native or near-native) - Arabic 4, 4, 4 - English 4, 4, 4 - French 4, 4, 4 - Italian 3, 3, 3 - Spanish 3, 2, 2 - German 2, 1, 1 - Russian 1, 1, 1 5