Idun Hauge

Idun Hauge is a historian of the modern Middle East specializing in the cultural, intellectual and gender history of modern Lebanon. Her research interrogates the politics of culture, heritage and gender in Lebanon and the modern Middle East. Her dissertation, "Phoenician Merchants and Ladies of Culture: Lebanon's Tourism Industry, 1943-1975," uses Lebanon's prominent tourism industry to examine how questions of culture, heritage and gender were entangled in local ways of thinking about capitalism.

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Hauge's courses on the pre-modern and modern Middle East focus on themes such as gender and sexuality, cultural and intellectual history, the politics of visual culture and heritage, and the ethical study of sectarianism and violence.