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Jennifer L. Derr is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she served as founding director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (2019–2024) and principal investigator for a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on 'Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine.'
Education:
- PhD in History
- BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University
- MA in Contemporary Arab Studies from Georgetown University
Her research explores intersections of the histories of medicine, science, environment, and capitalism in the modern Middle East and North Africa. She has authored the award-winning book The Lived Nile and is working on a second manuscript about the liver as a site of biomedical and economic study in twentieth-century Egypt.
Scientific Awards and Fellowships:
- Middle East Political Economy Book Prize (2020)
- Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (2024–2025)
- National Humanities Center Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- Social Science Research Council Fellowship
- Fulbright-Hays Commission Fellowship
- American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship
- Mellon Foundation Fellowship
- Institute for Historical Studies (University of Texas at Austin) Fellowship
Advising and Grants: While no formal advisees are listed, her work has been supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER Grant (2019) and collaborative funding from institutions like the Hellman Foundation and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.
