Visiting PhD Student | Fall 2023

Contact : soheila.el.ghaziri@umontreal.ca

Presentation

Soheila Ghaziri is a doctoral candidate in history at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Laurence Monnais and Dyala Hamzah. Her research focuses on health in Lebanon and Transjordan during the interwar period. She is particularly interested in the different actors involved in health in this context: local doctors, missionaries, Mandatory authorities and experts from supranational institutions. The aim of her thesis is to understand how spaces under the Mandate System enable us to better identify the beginnings of global health, the formation of networks of transnational and local actors, and the creation or improvement of health structures in Lebanon and Transjordan.

Soheila is a student member of the “Mondialisation sous tension" research group (UdeM, McGill, UQAM, Bishops). She holds a master's degree in transnational history (École des chartes; École normale supérieure, Paris) and a bachelor's degree in history (King's College London). 

Areas of expertise

• Global health, public health, colonial medicine 
• Global history, trans-imperial history, decolonizations 
• Levant, Middle East, Europe-Middle East relations

Publications

Ghaziri, Soheila, Antoine Duranton, Mathilde Sigalas, Margo Stemmelin et Jean-Pierre Bat. « Renseigner et administrer la terreur sous Hissein Habré : la Direction de la documentation et de la sécurité », Champ pénal, n°17, juin 2019.