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POSTDOCTORAL
fellows
Dina
Bakhoum
Dina Bakhoum is an engineer and art historian specializing in cultural heritage conservation and management, with long field experience in Cairo and Upper Egypt (2000-present). Her research and publications deal with Egypt’s Islamic, Coptic and modern architecture, the waqf (endowment) as a maintenance system, and the history and policies of heritage conservation. Her Ph.D. analyzes the restoration interventions of the Egyptian Comité de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe from the 1880s to the 1950s. Her post-doctoral fellowship is jointly funded by the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) and CEDEJ.
Sophie
Frankford
Sophie Frankford holds a DPhil in Anthropology (University of Oxford), a MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies (University of Oxford), and a BMus in Music (King’s College London). Her research centers on music in Egypt, with a particular focus on social class, urban space, and issues of modernity. She has taught at the University of Oxford and the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and has articles forthcoming in the journals Ethnography, Popular Music, and Égypte Soudan Mondes Arabes (ESMA).
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