Stacy D Fahrenthold

Stacy D Fahrenthold is a Professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on labor migration, displacement/refugees, borderlands, and diasporas in the modern Middle East. She serves as Associate Editor of Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Migration Studies. Her work examines transnational histories of Arab communities in the Americas during the World War I era and their impacts on post-Ottoman geopolitics.

Her award-winning book Between the Ottomans and the Entente analyzes Syrian and Lebanese diaspora activism during WWI, while her recent Unmentionables explores Syrian American garment workers' experiences. Fahrenthold also contributes to digital humanities initiatives, such as teaching Arab American history through online archives. She has published extensively on topics like Ottoman legal frameworks, diaspora repatriation myths, and transnational labor networks.

• Key Research Themes: Migration studies, transnational activism, Ottoman Empire, material culture, historical archives
• Editorial Roles: Co-founder and Associate Editor of Mashriq & Mahjar (since 2013)

Her scholarship bridges micro-histories of working-class communities with macro-analyses of imperial collapse and nation-state formation. Current projects include tracing Syrian migration routes to California and critical examinations of labor strike documentation in diaspora contexts.