Bio

Amy Fallas is a historian of the modern and transnational Middle East with a focus on religion and racialization, ethnic and religious minorities in the eastern Mediterranean, and transhemispheric mobilities between the Middle East and Latin America. She received her MA in History from Yale University and her PhD in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She held the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of History at UC Davis from 2025-2026.

Her book manuscript “Charitable Citizens: Philanthropy and Religious Difference in Modern Egypt” offers a new approach to the social history of sectarianism in Egypt through local and global nodes of philanthropy from the late 19th to mid 20th century. “Charitable Citizens” examines how a network of over a hundred sect-based charitable societies mediated inter-religious tensions in modern Egypt through social service, medical infrastructure, scientific knowledge production, and urban interventions. Her second project turns to integral role of Palestinian migrants in the formation of modern El Salvador and Honduras and the forging of ‘Latin East’ geographies in the twentieth century.

Amy is currently Associate Editor at the Arab Studies Journal and has held editorial roles for the Yale Journal for International Affairs and the Journal of Palestine Studies. Her academic scholarship is published in peer reviewed journals such as History Compass, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, and the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her public-facing work has appeared in The Washington Post, Jadaliyya, the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, Mada Masr, the New Arab, the Revealer, Contingent Magazine, and more.

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Publications

• Ecumenical Mobilities at the End of Empire(s): Coptic Youth, the World Student Christian Federation, and the Politics of Refusal, 1919-1949 , Mobilities, Migrations, and Identities in the Ottoman Twilight Workshop (2026)
• Hermanos fi al-Muqawama (Brothers in Resistance): Schafik Handal and Forging Resistance from Palestine to El Salvador , American Historical Association Annual Conference (2026)
• Israel's Gaza Doctrine Extends to Academic Institutions in Lebanon , (2026)
• Making Ancients Modern: Coptic Experts, Pharaonism, and the Search for Egyptian Origins , Middle East Studies Association (2026)
• Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire by Candace Lukasik (review) , American Religion (2026)
• A Marginalized Memory in Egypt: Remembering the Maspero Massacre from the Coptic Hospital , (2025)
• Charitable Cosmopolitanism? Egypt’s Armenian and Maronite Charities in the Twentieth Century , Cross-Cultural Interaction in Egypt through the Ages conference (2025)
• Hermanos fi al-Muqawama (Brothers in Resistance): Schafik Handal and Forging Resistance from Palestine to El Salvador , Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference (2025)
• History of Medicine in Modern and Contemporary Egypt: New Directions and Research Challenges , Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference (2025)
• Making Ancients Modern: Sect-Based Societies and the Search for Egyptian Racial, Linguistic, and Cultural Origins, 1908-1938 , Thamarat al Funun Colloquium (2025)

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