Ellis Garey

Ellis Garey is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Labor History at Brown University's Department of History. Her research focuses on labor, communism, and technology in the modern Middle East, with a particular emphasis on the emergence of 'the worker' as a social concept in late-Ottoman and French Mandate Greater Syria. She is completing her first book manuscript, Figuring Labor: The Emergence of the Worker in Greater Syria, 1870-1943.

At Brown, she teaches courses such as 'Laboring Against Automation' and 'Work: A Global History.' She has organized interdisciplinary workshops and reading groups, including a two-day event on 'Labor and the Global South' and a 'Labor Studies' works-in-progress group. Her union activism includes roles as a steward and strike organizer with NYU's GSOC-UAW 2110 and involvement in Brown's Postdoctoral Labor Organization.

Garey holds a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from New York University (2024). Her work appears in Radical History Review and The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.