Amy Fallas is a Salvadoran-Costa Rican writer, editor, and historian of the modern and transnational Middle East. Her research focuses on infrastructure and social welfare, 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.

She is an Assistant Professor of History and the Akram Khater Distinguished Fellow of Arab Migration Studies at North Carolina State University. 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.