Stacy D. Fahrenthold

Stacy Fahrenthold is Professor in the Department of History and the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, and a faculty affiliate of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group. She is a historian of the modern Middle East specializing in labor migration, displacement, refugees, and diasporas within and from the region. Fahrenthold is the author of two award-winning monographs. Her second book,  Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class, examines how Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian workers navigated processes of racialization, immigration restriction, and labor contestation in the textile industries of the Atlantic world, and was awarded the Middle East Studies Association's 2025 Nikki Keddie Book Award and the 2026 David Montgomery Book Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Labor and Working-Class History Association. Her first book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019), received the Arab American National Museum's Evelyn Shakir Book Award, the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, and the Syrian Studies Association Book Prize.