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EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, Morgan State University, 2018 - Present
EDUCATION
Ph.D Candidate, History, Johns Hopkins University, 2018
Advisor: Todd Shepard
Dissertation: "Algerian Answers to the Woman Question: Gender, Islam, and Modernity in Interwar Algeria
Committee Members: Todd Shepard, Sara Pursley, Niloofar Haeri, Pier Larson, and Elizabeth Thornberry
M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2012
Advisor: Leora Auslander
Thesis: "The Roots of Negritude: Paulette Nardal, the Creation of a Cosmopolitan, Race-Conscious Community, and La Revue du Monde Noir"
Double B.A., History and French Language & Culture, University of Maryland, 2010
PUBLICATIONS
The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Forthcoming, Cornell University Press)
Book review, Charlotte Courreye’s L’Algérie des Oulémas: Une histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine (1931-1991), Arab Studies Journal (Spring 2022)
“Hats and Hijabs in Interwar Algeria,” Gender & History, Volume 32, Issue No. 2 (July 2020)
Book review, Jessica Gerschultz’s Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power, Journal of Middle East Women Studies, Volume 16, Issue No. 3 (November 2020)
RECENT FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
·John W. Kluge Center Fellowship, The Library of Congress, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
RECENT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Panel Organizer:
“Maghrib x Mashriq: Gendered Negotiations of Transnational Ties,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, November 2022
“Women on the Margins: Slaves, Domestic Servants, & Migrant Women’s Labor in the Middle East & North Africa,” Berkshire Conference on the Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, May 2020
"Work it, Girl!: Marginal Women’s Labor from Morocco to Iran," Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, November 2018
“In Their Own Words: Global Understandings of Modern Womanhood in the mid-Twentieth Century Women’s Press,” American Historical Association, January 2018
“‘Our Muslim Sisters:’ Islam, Gender, and Empire in Twentieth Century French Colonial Africa,” Berkshire Conference on the Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, June 2017
“Forget about the Algerian War: New Perspectives on France and Algeria during and after Colonialism,” Society for French Historical Studies Conference, April 2016
Panelist:
“The Professional Women of the Mashriq in Interwar Algeria,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, November 2022
“Emotional Transnationalism in Interwar Algerian Debates about Women,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, October 2020
“Women in Public and Public Women: Women’s Labor and Anxieties about Urban Space in Interwar Algeria,” Berkshire Conference on the Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, May 2020
“The Future in Female: Debates about Women in Interwar Algeria,” History, Archive, Nation: Algeria Workshop, University of Maryland College Park, September 2019
“Mixed Marriages in Twentieth-Century Colonial Algeria,” Symposium on Generations, Families, and Genders, Bucknell University, September 2019
“African Feminist Historiography,” African Feminist Histories Conference, Pennsylvania State University, April 2019"The Regional to Solve the Local: References to Africa in Algerian Discussions About Women's Education," African Studies Association, November 2018
“Domestic Service and Sexual Danger in Interwar Algeria," Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, November 2018
“Global Norms of Respectability in the Emerging Women's Press of 1940s Algeria," American Historical Association, January 2018
“Under the tent or in the house, for us Muslim women it’s the same life of erasure”: Emerging Critiquing Patriarchy in the 1940s Women’s Press in 1940s Algeria,” African Studies Association, November 2017
“'Muhammad, the first Arab feminist:' Interpretations of Islam in the Interwar Algerian Debates about Muslim Women,” Berkshire Conference on the Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, June 2017
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, “Women and War,” Morgan State University
Instructor, “History of the Modern Middle East,” Morgan State University
Instructor, “Gender and French Empire Through Film,” Morgan State University
Instructor, “Gender in the Middle East,” Morgan State University
Instructor, "Introduction to the African Diaspora," Morgan State University
Instructor, "Exchanges and Migrations in the Modern Mediterranean," Johns Hopkins University
Instructor, "Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth Century European Empires," Johns Hopkins University
INVITED LECTURES
“The Future is Feminist: The Algerian Case for a More Flexible Feminism,” Agnes Scott University, October 2022
“Twentieth Century Muslim Feminisms,” Guest Lecture, Bucknell University, March 2022
“The Orientalist Gaze and Colonial History,” Guest Lecture, New York University, November 2021
“Beyond Metaphor: Women and War Reading Group,” Moderator, Apexart, July 2021
“Gender, Islam and Political Change in North Africa,” United States Department of State, June 2021
“Hats and Hijabs in Interwar Algeria,” History of the Gendered Body Lecture Series, University of Oxford, May 2021
“Hijab in Colonial Algeria and France Today,” Guest Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 2020
“A Conversation with Karla F.C. Holloway,” Moderator, Morgan State University, November 2018
“Success on the Academic Market in Humanities,” Johns Hopkins University, September 2018
"Rethinking Islam & Gender: History, War, and Women in Peril," Alley Cat Books, July 2018
"Hats and Hijabs in Algeria and Turkey," Ottoman History Podcast, January 2018
"Global 1968," Guest Lecture for "America in the 1960s," Pennsylvania State University, November 2017
"The Rise of Secular Modernity in Turkey and its Echoes Across the Muslim World," United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., May 2017
LANGUAGES
French
Farsi
Arabic