education

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”

american research center in egypt research fellowship [2024]

macmillan international dissertation research fellowship, yale university [2023]

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]

sudan human rights hub [april 2024 - present] 

archive director

• I work with developers, journalists, investigators, human rights monitors, and grassroots human rights organizations based in sudan to archive their data (digital media, social media documentation, written testimonials, etc) on the human rights abuses committed throughout the April 15, 2023 war in sudan. I manage a team of three archival officers and eleven investigators and work with them to ensure the security of this data and to make it easily accessible to those that need it. In addition to managing sudan human rights hub's archive from the past decade, I work with sudan human rights hub's technical development team to build out a decentralized archive that can support the archiving needs of grassroots partners from across Sudan. 

savannah innovation labs [dec 2022 - april 2024]

researcher & consultant

• I analyzed surveys, polls, and other relevant materials collected from start ups incubated by savannah innovation labs to produce reports detailing our quarterly progress to stakeholders such as the british council and usaid. These reports situated savannah’s operations in the political and economic context of sudan’s post-revolution transition.  

arabi facts hub, open transformation labs [aug 2022 - jan 2023]

seasonal grant writer

• I wrote two grant applications for awards administered by the national institute for the humanities on behalf of  arabi facts hub. I helped the team develop a long term, sustainable vision for the company that was legible to grant administrators and developed a structure for the  company’s newly formed grants’ team. 

the macmillan center council on african studies, yale university [aug 2021 - may 2022]

african studies working group coordinator 

• I organized and facilitated a bi-weekly working group for the african studies community at yale. I also coordinated with students and faculty on campus to host events centered around scholarship on africa and the african diaspora.

tadamon, the egyptian refugee multicultural council [may 2018 - aug 2018]

intern

• I assisted in curating programs, workshops, development programs, and trainings to encourage and  solidarity amongst egyptian and migrant, asylum-seeking, and refugee sudanese communities in cairo. on a day-to-day basis, I assisted sudanese asylum-seekers in accessing basic services and residential status in egypt. 

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]