I am a historian of the modern Middle East and Mediterranean. At Maine I hold a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

My teaching and research interests include women’s movements, modern Middle Eastern History, and 20th-century Mediterranean history. My book, tentatively titled Suffrage Mediterranean Style, is under contract with NYU Press. I trace the relationship of the Egyptian Feminist Union, Italian Suffrage Federation, Union of Women of Spain, and the Turkish Women’s Union with their national authoritarian governments and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance from 1923 to 1935. Organized around the Alliance’s interwar congresses, I argue that Mediterranean women faced and challenged marginalization from both the regimes at home and the Alliance’s North Atlantic Protestant majority to advocate for themselves as valuable members of the global suffrage movement. 

My work has been published in the Journal of Women’s History and the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, and California Italian Studies. I regularly present my work at the American Historical Association, Middle East Studies Association, and British Society for Middle Eastern Studies annual meetings. I have given talks at Seattle University, St. Antony’s College (Oxford), Umeå University (Sweden), and Wake Forest University. 

I received my PhD in Islamic History from the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in August 2020. I received my MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2014) and a BA with Honors in History from Wake Forest University (2011), where I also minored in Italian and Women’s and Gender Studies. I held a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Uşak, Turkey from 2011-12.