Beth Baron is Distinguished Professor of History at the City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. As a historian of the Middle East, she focuses on gender, medicine, and modern Egypt. She served as editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Her research has been funded by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Carnegie Corporation, Fulbright-Hays, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Jeffrey Culang is an independent historian of modern Egyptian law. He earned his PhD in history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He also served as Managing Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Currently, and separate from his work in history and Middle East studies, he is an editor at the Center on
Global Energy Policy, Columbia University SIPA.