Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Secondary Phone: 859-539-5097
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street NW
Suite 401
Washington
DC
20052
United States
ABOUT
I serve as Assistant Dean for Research at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, where I also teach courses in Middle East Studies. I earned my PhD in History from Georgetown University in 2018. My current project, "Sweetening the Pot: A History of Tea and Taste in Morocco, 1850-1960" examines how imported Chinese green tea and refined sugar from the Americas were central elements in a fundamental shift in the Moroccan diet and in Moroccans' relationship to their own means of food production. My work has been supported by an ACLS Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, an American Institute for Maghrib Studies Long-Term Research Grant, a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant. I am also a contributor to the Ottoman History Podcast.
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Maghreb Studies
Nationalism
Historiography
Colonialism
19th-21st Centuries
Mediterranean Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Maghreb
Morocco
Mediterranean Countries
Mauritania
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Specialties
Mod Moroccan Hist
Commodity History
Colonial History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Education
MA
| 2010
| Elliott School of International Affairs
| The George Washington University
BA
| 2005
| Amer Stds
| Carleton Col
Abstracts
Gendered Drinking in Colonial Morocco
Feeding the Indigènes: Diet and Colonial Policies in French North Africa
Tea, Sugar, and Rural Consumers in Colonial Morocco
Women, Work, and the idea of the Islamic city in Colonial Morocco
Food and Drink in Wartime Tangier, 1940-1950
