Elizabeth H. Shlala

Elizabeth H. Shlala is the assistant dean of the Core and associate professor of the practice at Boston College. She is a historian of the Middle East and North Africa and is also a visiting scholar at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the T. H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. Her work explores the nexus of modern migration and law in the Middle East. Her main research areas are twofold: legal imperialism and colonial hybridity in the late Ottoman period and the social and economic impact of contemporary global migration. Her most recent book is titled The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt: Hybridity, Law, and Gender.