Current Member
Taylor M. Moore
Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
History of Science; Modern Middle East
Home institution
Yale University
Website
Taylor Moore is a historian of science and technology in the Middle East, with interests in material methodologies. At IAS, she will work on a book tracing the history of rural bodies as environmental technologies in Egypt and their impact on the global historical imagination.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ph.D.
2020
The American University in Cairo
B.A.
2013
Honors
2024
David Edge Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science
2024
Price/Webster Article Prize, History of Science Society
2023
Junior Fellow, The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, University of Virginia Rare Book School
Appointments
Yale University
2026
Assistant Professor, Department of History and History of Science and Medicine
University of California, Santa Barbara
2022–2025
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
2021–2023
Academy Scholar
University of California, Santa Barbara
2020–2021
President's Postdoctoral Fellow, History