Elya Assayag studies the social and cultural history of women in Morocco during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since written materials by and about women are scarce, she uses women-designated crafts as central sources for historical analysis. Her...

Ifadha Sifar is a PhD student in international and global history at Columbia, broadly interested in the social history of the Indian Ocean world. Her research currently focuses on the pearl trade in the western Indian Ocean world between the late-nineteenth and early...