She accepted this position in 2005, after serving as the Assistant Professor of History, Honors and International Affairs at The George Washington University since 2001. She received her doctorate from Georgetown University’s Department of History. Her research focuses on gender from diverse perspectives. She recently published a book entitled Gender in the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt, but has also published extensively on women in Islam. This includes an article in The Daughters of Abraham, Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century, and The Muslim World.