I completed my Ph.D. at the History Department of the University of Arizona in August 2018. While a Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, I am working on a manuscript provisionally titled Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said, 1859-1906: Migrant Labor and the Making of the Suez Canal. In this book, I trace the social and cultural history of Port Said’s urban beginnings at the intersection of migratory routes, imperial interests, and infrastructural transformations. My next research projects include studies in the history of public health on the Suez Isthmus; a historical analysis of migrants’ correspondence; an inquiry into the history of both maritime and land-based transportation networks in the region.

My research has received support from the Fulbright Commission, the University of Arizona, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation with the Council for Library and Information Resources, the Zeit Foundation, and the Coordinating Council for Women Historians with the Berkshire Conference.