Meet Dr. Saniya Ghanoui – Assistant Professor of Digital and Public History
Dr. Saniya Lee Ghanoui is a Public and Digital Historian of 19th and 20th century United States and Europe with a focus on gender and sexuality, medicine, and transnational history. She is currently revising her manuscript, Translating Sex Culture: Transnational Sex Education and the U.S.-Swedish Relationship, 1910s–1960s. Dr. Ghanoui is deeply committed to fostering the digital humanities. She is the Senior Producer of Sexing History, a podcast that examines how the history of sexuality shapes our present; on the Advisory Board for Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality, an international, peer-reviewed blog; and she co-created SourceLab, a digital publishing initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Ghanoui graduated with her PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; her MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University; her MA in Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College; and her BA in Communication and Media Arts from Marymount Manhattan College
