Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said. Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906

Lucia Carminati (external link) is professor of History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. She is a social and cultural historian of migration and the modern Middle East. In particular, she researches Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries with a special focus on migratory routes and mobility at large, imperial interests, and infrastructural transformations. 

Other than in her recently published monograph (University of California Press, 2023), her research appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Journal of the History of Sexuality, History Compass, Journal of Urban History, Rethinking History, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. 

In 2023, she finalized a project via the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme that will make 70,000 periodical pages of 19th- and 20th-century collections from Cairo available on the British Library website. She describes this project in a recent multi-lingual blog post (external link).