Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
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- Title
- Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA), Science & Justice Research Center
- Phone
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 529
- Office Hours Spring 2024: Thursdays, 1-3 pm in Humanities 529 or by appt. (via zoom)
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water
- Courses HIS 41: The Making of the Modern Middle East; HIS 151A: Medicine and the Body in the Colonial World; HIS 156: Interrogating Politics in the Post-Colonial Middle East; HIS 156A: Art, Culture, and Mass Media in the Arab Middle East; HIS 157: The Ottoman Empire; HIS 194Q: Making Space in the Colonial and Post-Colonial World; HIS 194W: Social Movements in the Modern Middle East; HIS 260: History and the Spatial Turn: Making Space, Place, and Geography in History; HIS 261: The Contours of the New Middle East History
- Advisees, Grad Students, Researchers
Research Interests
Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history; environmental history; history of science; history of medicine; critical geography
Biography, Education and Training
Education
B.S. in Biological Sciences, Stanford University
M.A. in Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Ph.D. in History, Stanford University
Honors, Awards and Grants
Principal Investigator, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine," 2021-2023
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, "History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns," 2019-2024
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department III, Working Group “Art of Judgment,” Visiting Scholar, January 2019 – July 2019
UCHRI Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop Award, 2016-2017
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Award Winner, 2016
Hellman Fellow, 2015-2016
Social Science Research Council Book Fellowship, 2012
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows in British Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2010
Selected Publications
“The Body of the Nile: Environmental disease in the long twentieth century in Egypt.” In the Handbook of Modern Egyptian History, edited by Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, February 2024.
“The Dammed Body: Thinking Historically about Water Security and Public Health.” Dædalus: A Publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 150, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01877.
“Approaching the History of an Egyptian Biomedicine.” History Compass 19, no. 6 (June 2021). https://doi-org.oca.ucsc.edu/10.1111/hic3.12656.
"Hepatitis C, COVID-19 and the Egyptian Regime’s Approach to Health Care." Middle East Report: Health and the Body Politic" 297 (Winter 2020).
The Lived Nile: Environment, disease, and material colonial economy in Egypt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019.
“Labor-time: Ecological bodies and agricultural labor in 19th and early 20th-century Egypt.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 50 no. 2 (May 2018): 195-212.
“The Dirty Subject of the First World War.” International Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 46 no. 4 (November 2014): 781-783.
“A Draft of the Colony: Historical Imagination and the Production of Agricultural Geography in British-Occupied Egypt.” In Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Edmund Burke III and Diana K. Davis, 136-157. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.
“Regulation of p53 by Hypoxia: Dissociation of Transcriptional Repression and Apoptosis from p53-Dependent Transactivation.” (with Constantinos Koumenis, Rodolfo Alarcon, Ester Hammond, Patrick Sutphin, William Hoffman, Maureen Murphy, Yoichi Taya, Scott W. Lowe, Michael Kastan, and Amato Giaccia) Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vol. 21, No. 4 (February 2001): 1297-1310.
