Ellis Garey is a Ph.D. candidate in History & Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. Her research deals with issues of class formation, political subjectivity, and anti-capitalist theory and practice. Her dissertation is tentatively titled “Becoming Workers: the Question of Labor in Greater Syria, 1880-1936” and takes the emergence of the ‘worker’ in the late Ottoman and early post-Ottoman period as its central concern.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Ottoman Studies
Arabic
Labor History
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Lebanon
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
MA
| 2018
| Middle Eastern Studies
| New York University
