Beshouy Botros

Beshouy Botros is a historian finishing a dissertation on the making of medicalized gender transition across North Africa. At Yale they have taught courses across History of Science and Medicine, the Women's Gender, Sexuality Studies and Theater and Performance Studies departments. Working with artists and engineers at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media and the Beinecke Library, Beshouy developed tools across virtual reality and copper-plate printmaking to study the Napoleonic Description of Egypt and the early history of photography. 

More recently, and closer to home, Beshouy has led classes on modern Egyptian history with study abroad students and a postgraduate seminar on archival research methods in Cairo.