Dr. Saniya Lee Ghanoui
Assistant Professor of History
Dr. Saniya Lee Ghanoui is a Public and Digital Historian of 19th and 20th century United States and Europe with a focus on Swedish-American relations and the transatlantic exchange of ideas. She is currently revising her manuscript, Translating Sex Culture: Transnational Sex Education and the U.S.-Swedish Relationship, 1910s–1960s (University of Wisconsin Press). Dr. Ghanoui is deeply committed to fostering the digital humanities. She is a podcast producer and documentary filmmaker, and she co-created , a digital publishing initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her writing has appeared in the American Historical Review, Time, Public Books, Notches, and Clio and the Contemporary. 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.
Classes Taught: Public History; History of the US, 1865–Present; US and the World, 1895–Present; Global History