Education
Yale University [2019-2026]
Ph.D. Candidate of History
Dissertation title: “The Forty Days’ Road & The World Around It: Race, Slavery, and Society in Ottoman-Egyptian Sudan, 1840-1924”
New York University [2015-2019]
Magna Cum Laude
Bachelor of Arts in History (high honors), Minor in Politics
Thesis title: “Memory, Loss, & Nubian Displacement: Contesting Constructions of the Aswan High Dam”
Languages
Arabic [native proficiency]
Modern Turkish [advanced mid-proficiency, ACTFL certified]
Ottoman Turkish [advanced proficiency]
Grants & Fellowships
Lindsey Fellowship for Research in Africa, Yale University
2025
American Research Center in Egypt Research Fellowship
MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University
2024
2023
CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship
2022
The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC)
2022
American Research Institute in Turkey Research Grant
2021
CMES Çağatay Summer Fellowship, Yale University
2022
MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Yale University
2020
Graduate Research Fellowship of the Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University
2021
MacMillan Center Summer Fellowship for Language Study, Yale University
2019
Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Fellowship, Yale University
2019
Dean’s Emerging Scholars Fellowship, Yale University
2019
Fulbright Open Study/Research Award (declined)
2019
Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights, New York University
2017
Critical Language Scholarship
2016