Agrarian change
Social history
Environmental history
Political economy
Palestine/Israel
Current Project
I am a historian of the modern Middle East interested in the history of family, work, and economy in agrarian life over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I study the agrarian history of Palestine/Israel through histories of commodities, merging global histories of capitalism with local histories of imperial and colonial landscapes and personal narratives drawn from archival sources and oral history interviews.
Going forward, I plan to examine depeasantization - the main social, economic, and cultural change in Palestinian society of the twentieth century. My work will focus on the nexus between ecology, capital, and agriculture and the dynamics between legal codes, economic ideologies, and moral economy.
Education
2015-2023 PhD, Department of History, Stanford University.
2015-2017 MA History, Stanford University.
2012-2015 MA Culture Research, Tel Aviv University.