Idun Hauge is a historian of the modern Middle East specializing in the cultural, intellectual and gender history of modern Lebanon. She received her PhD in History from Georgetown University in 2024. Her research interrogates the politics of culture, heritage and gender in Lebanon and the modern Middle East. Her dissertation, "Phoenician Merchants and Ladies of Culture: Lebanon's Tourism Industry, 1943-1975," uses Lebanon's prominent tourism industry to examine how questions of culture, heritage and gender were entangled in local ways of thinking about capitalism. Currently, she is writing about the role of Druze figures, heritage and history in Lebanese nationalist narratives in the early to mid-twentieth century.