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, 1821-1924”
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”
lindsey fellowship for research in africa, yale university [2025]
american research center in egypt research fellowship [2024]
macmillan international dissertation research fellowship, yale university [2022]
caorc multi-country research fellowship [2022]
the mellon international dissertation research fellowship, social science research council [2022]
american research institute in turkey research grant [2022]
cmes çağatay summer fellowship, yale university [2021]
macmillan center pre-dissertation research grant, yale university [2021]
graduate research fellowship of the gilder lehrman center, yale university [2020]
macmillan center summer fellowship for language study, yale university [2020]
dean's emerging scholars fellowship, yale university [2019]
race, indigeneity, and transnational migration 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]
arabic [native proficiency]
modern turkish [advanced mid-proficiency, actfl certified]
ottoman turkish [advanced proficiency]
university honors scholar, new york university [2019]
alvin h. zagor memorial scholarship prize, new york university [2019]
kwame yeboah daaku memorial prize, new york university department of history [2019]
jurate kazickas research scholar, new york university [2018]
richard hull award in african history, new york university department of history [2018]
dean's list for academic year, new york university [2015 - 2019]
presidential honors scholar, new york university [2015 - 2019]