Kristen Alff

Kristen Alff (born 7 August 1977) is an American historian and an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at North Carolina State University. Alff is a specialist in the history of the Middle East and North Africa and the global political economy.

Background

Alff received a B.A. from Boston University in 2001, an M.A in Middle East Studies, The American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2009 and a PhD in History from Stanford University.

Awards and honors

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2023–2024) – research and writing support for the book project Levantine Joint‑stock Companies and Global Capitalism, 1830–1930.
• Summer Residency Award, National Humanities Center (June 2022).
• World History Association Dissertation Prize (1st Place) (2019, presented 2020) for “The Business of Property: Levantine Joint‑stock Companies, Land, Law, and Capitalist Development Around the Mediterranean, 1850–1925.”
• Herman E. Krooss Prize – finalist (2020) for best dissertation in business history, Business History Conference.
• NEH Summer Stipend (2020).
• Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center (2017–2018).
• Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center (2016).
• Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi‑Country Research Fellowship (2015).

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