Committee Members:
Alex Chase-Levenson, Marc Flandreau, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Awards:
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship (2021-2022)
University of Pennsylvania Dean's Scholar (2021)
Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, Arabic (2019-2020)
Haldane Research Grant (2019)
O. Odlozilik Fellow (2018-2019)
Georgian Papers Programme Fellow at Royal Archives, Windsor Castle (2018)
Annenberg History Fellow (2017-2018)
MSc., Political Theory (with distinction), London School of Economics (2016)
B.A., English (with honors), University of Chicago (2011)
British Empire, Middle East, 19th-Century Global Finance, Egypt, Sovereign Debt, 19th-Century Information Technologies
Fields: Modern Middle East; British Empire; 19th-Century Finance
HIST 081: The History of the Middle East Since 1800 (Fall 2018)
HIST 001: The Making of the Modern World (Spring 2019)
"The Cave Mission of 1876 and Britain’s Imperial Information Strategies," Past & Present (Spring 2023)
"A Royal Purchase: The First Jane Austen Novel Sold," Notes and Queries (June 2019)
Non-Academic Writing:
"Anatomy of An Exodus," New Lines Magazine (Sept 2022)
"The Philosopher's Wine," New Lines Magazine (May 2021)
Media:
The Lede Podcast (New Lines Magazine): "Telling A Syrian Fighter's Story" (w/Idrees Ahmad and Faisal Al-Yafai)
Discovered earliest known purchase record of a Jane Austen novel while researching in Windsor Castle archives. Story covered in New York Times, Guardian, Smithsonian.