Sherene Seikaly

Author and Associate Professor of History at the University of California

Sherene Seikaly is a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2024–25) and Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her 2016 book Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine explores economy, territory, the home, and the body. Her forthcoming book From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine tells a global history of capital, slavery, and dispossession. She is the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB and co-editor of the Stanford Studies Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and Jadaliyya.