I am a Professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University of California Davis. As a historian of the modern Middle East, my research centers on migration, displacement, refugees, borderlands, and diasporas within the region and the Americas. I’ve written two books so far: Unmentionables (2024), on Arab American textile workers and labor activism in the United States, and Between the Ottomans and the Entente (2019), on Syrian and Lebanese diaspora nationalism in the Americas during the First World War. I’ve worked at UC Davis since 2018, with previous appointments at California State University.

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