Siga Maguiraga is a social historian of Islam whose research explores mobility, authority, and everyday forms of agency across the Sahel and Egypt. She received her PhD in History from the European University Institute in 2026.

Her current book project investigates how ordinary Muslim seekers of knowledge negotiated overlapping regimes of Islamic authority, Ottoman-Egyptian reform, and colonial governance in Cairo between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research brings African and Middle Eastern historiographies into conversation through the study of ordinary Muslims and long-distance scholarly mobility.

She holds a BA in History from Sorbonne University and an MA in History and Civilizations from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her master's thesis on Malian students in Turkey received the Walter Markov Prize from the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) in 2021. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright-Schuman Program. Her work has appeared in the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies and Comparativ.