About

Amy Fallas is a Salvadoran-Costa Rican writer, editor, and PhD Candidate in History. She is a former editor of the Yale Journal for International Affairs and current editor at the Arab Studies Journal. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Jadaliyya, the Revealer, Sojourners, Contingent Magazine, and more.

She received her MA in History from Yale University and is currently working on her PhD in History at UC Santa Barbara. Her research is at the intersection of Middle East and Ottoman history, archival studies, religious studies, and Latin-East connections (Latin America and Middle East). Her public writing covers religion and politics in Egypt, the United States, and Central America with pieces ranging from Latino evangelicals to human rights in Egypt.

Amy’s research has been supported by the Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), the Yale Center for Race, Indigenous, and Transnational Migration, the Borchard European Studies Foundation, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life, and the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies. She is currently a research fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and the American Society for Church History for the 2021-2022 year, working on her dissertation “The Gospel of Wealth: Charity and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1879-1939.”

She lives between Los Angeles and Washington D.C.