Martina Rieker
Director, Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, American University in Cairo
Martina Rieker is the Director of the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the American University in Cairo. Previously she served as the associate dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo. Before that, she served as associate director of the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies (AUC) during 2001-2005. She is co-coordinator of the Shehr Comparative Urban Landscapes in the Middle East and South Asia Network and co-coordinator of the (Re) Construction of War Torn Communities in the Middle East and Africa Working Group.
Research Project: Collecting Data, Constructing Desire: The Girl Child as Problem Space
Links: www.shehr.org, www.aucegypt.edu/rwcmea, www.aucegypt.edu/igws