Amy Fallas will join the UC Davis Department of History in Fall 2025 as a UC Davis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow. Currently finishing her PhD in History at UC Santa Barbara, Fallas specializes in modern Egypt as well as transnational exchanges between Latin America and the Arab Middle East. Her research examines religious difference, communal institutions, charitable networks, sectarianism, and collective memory. As a UC Davis Chancellor's Postdoctoral fellow, she will work on her book manuscript “Their Own Poor: Communal Identities, Charitable Societies, and the Making of Sectarianism in Modern Egypt, 1879-1939,” which reconstructs the welfare networks of sect-based benevolent associations and their role in mediating interreligious tension, building public infrastructure, forging circuits of knowledge production, and shaping urban geographies in Egypt.