Amy Fallas is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Davis. She holds a PhD in History from UC Santa Barbara and an MA in History from Yale University. Her research focuses on religious and ethnic minorities in the modern Middle East, philanthropic networks across the Eastern Mediterranean, and transnational connections between Latin America and the Middle East. Her current book project “Their Own Poor: Communal Identity, Charitable Societies, and the Making of Sectarianism in Modern Egypt” examines the formation of sectarianism in Egypt through local and global nodes of philanthropy from the late 19th to mid 20th century.