Amy Fallas is a Salvadoran-Costa Rican writer, editor, and historian. She is a former editor of the Yale Journal for International Affairs and currently Associate Editor at the Arab Studies Journal. Her academic scholarship is published in peer reviewed journals such as History Compass, NACLA Report on the Americas, Christian–Muslim Relations, and the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her public-facing work has appeared in The Washington Post, Jadaliyya, the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, Mada Masr, the New Arab, the Revealer, Sojourners, Contingent Magazine, and more.

She is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis in the Department of History working on her book manuscript on charity and sectarianism in modern Egypt. She received her MA in History from Yale University and her PhD in History from UC Santa Barbara and works across the fields of modern Middle East and late Ottoman History, Religious Studies, Archival Studies, and the Latin East (Middle East-Latin American studies). Her research examines religious difference, communal institutions, charitable networks, sectarianism, and historical memory in modern Egypt as well as the transnational connections between El Salvador and Palestine during the 20th Century.

She has lived in the Middle East since 2021 through the support of research fellowships with the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), the American Society for Church History (ASCH), and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University to conduct research for her dissertation “Their Own Poor: Charitable Societies, Communal Identities, and the Making of Sectarianism in Modern Egypt 1879-1939.”

She is based in Beirut, Lebanon.