Academic Positions

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Iowa
*Promotion to Associate Professor of Instruction approved for July 2020
Associate Director of International Studies, 2020
Lecturer, 2017-Present, Departments of History and International Studies,
Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2016-2017, Departments of History and International Studies
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2014-2015, Department of Religious Studies
Courses: History of the Modern Middle East; The Israel-Palestine Conflict; Global Jewish History; Global Food Migrations; Introduction to the History Major; Religion and Politics: Muslim-Jewish Relations; World News Today; Creating a Proposal for International Research; Elementary Modern Standard Arabic

Bryn Mawr College
Visiting Lecturer, 2013-2014
Department of History
Courses: From Empire to Nation-state in the Middle East; Middle Eastern Migration, Diaspora and Nostalgia; Nationalism and Conflict in Israel and Palestine; Middle Eastern Jewish Communities; Culinary History of the Middle East

New York University
Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, 2010-2013
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies & the Taub Center for Israel Studies
Courses: Jews in the Islamic World in the Modern Period; Ethnicity in Israel; Food and Identity in the Middle East and its Jewish Communities.

Fordham University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2009-2010
Department of History
Courses: Understanding Historical Change: Middle Eastern History; Introduction to Modern Middle Eastern History.

Pace University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fall 2009
Department of History
Courses: Modern Islamic World: 1850-Present; The Middle East: A Historical Survey.

Columbia University
Teaching Fellow, 2003-2009
Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies
Courses: Islamic Civilization; Contemporary Islamic Civilization; Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Societies; Introduction to Arabic.