AUB Neighborhood
Initiative
AUB
Cynthia Myntti received her MA in anthropology from the American
University of Beirut (AUB) in 1974, before going on to do a PhD in social
anthropology at the London School of Economics (1983) and a Master of Public
Health from Johns Hopkins University (1986).
Cynthia worked as a program officer in the Ford Foundation offices in
Cairo and Jakarta for nearly a decade, and held teaching positions at Sanaa
University in Yemen, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and
the University of Minnesota in the USA.
In 1998 she returned to AUB as a Visiting Associate Professor in the
Faculty of Health Sciences. After
publishing Paris along the Nile: Architecture in Cairo from the Belle Epoque
(Cairo: AUC Press, 1999) she decided to return to graduate school, in
architecture, graduating with an M Arch from Yale in 2004. Since 2006, Cynthia has directed the
Neighborhood Initiative at AUB and is Professor of Public Health Practice.
