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Professor Stacy Fahrenthold is a historian of the modern Middle East specializing in labor migration; displacement/refugees; border studies; and diasporas within and from the region. Her award winning first book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2019) explores the war work of Arab emigres living in Brazil, Argentina, and the United States, revealing the repercussions of their activism on the post-Ottoman Middle East. Her new book, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2024) examines how Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian immigrant workers navigated processes of racialization, immigration restriction, and labor contestation in the textile industries of the Atlantic world. She is also Associate Editor of the leading open access journal Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Migration Studies, and a series editor of Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East with the American University of Cairo Press.
In addition to the Department of History, Fahrenthold is affiliated with the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, the Global Migration Center, and the Human Rights Studies Program. Before coming to UC Davis in 2018, she taught at Stanislaus State University, Fresno State University, and Williams College.
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Migration, displacement, and diaspora in the Middle East; Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine; the Ottoman eastern Mediterranean; Arab American studies; labor and working-class histories; ethnic and religious minorities; refugees.
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