She is currently a Consortium of Humanities Centers & Institutes visiting scholar at University of Washington and a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies. Her book project, Race in Transit: Mobility Between Greater Syria and U.S. Empire, follows the itineraries of migrants from Ottoman Syria through Beirut, Marseille, the US-Mexico Borderlands, U.S.-occupied Philippines, and the United States to examine how transnational patriarchy forged the global color line, and to surface mobility’s central role in the construction of race, sexuality, and gender. She argues that gendered and classed differences in Ottoman Syria were exacerbated by the transit of migrants through multiple empires and became racialized in unstable ways as migrants encountered the emerging multi-sited U.S. empire. She shows how migrants’ experiences reveal the messy relations between local and global constructions of race and transnational patriarchy and the consequence for migrants who straddle racial categories.