Taylor M. Moore

Dr. Taylor M. Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University and a dual B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the American University in Cairo. Her research focuses on the interplay of race, gender, and science in modern Middle Eastern contexts, particularly 19th- and early 20th-century Egypt.

Moore’s work bridges histories of science, technology, and medicine with critical race and gender studies. Her first book, Amulet Tales: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Egypt (forthcoming, Duke University Press), uses amuletic objects to examine how women healers shaped global anthropological knowledge. Her second project, Living Fossils, explores how Egyptian peasants’ bodies became sites of scientific and environmental inquiry.

• Education:
  • Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, 2020
  • B.A., Political Science & Sociology, American University in Cairo, 2010

Her scholarship has appeared in Isis, American Historical Review, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. Awards include the David Edge Prize (2024) and Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2019). She is a Junior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (2023–2025).

Moore teaches courses on Middle Eastern history, science in global contexts, and race and technology. She has held fellowships at Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and the UC President’s Postdoctoral Program.