Taylor Moore

Taylor Moore joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of History and in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.  She is historian of science, technology, and medicine, specializing in Egypt and the modern Middle East.  

Moore’s first book, Amulet Tales, rewrites the history of modern Egypt through an archive of talismans and charms and the people that used them. She is also at work on a project tracing the history of rural bodies as environmental technologies in Egypt and their impact on the global historical imagination in the 19th and 20th centuries.  

Moore’s work has been published in the American Historical Review, Isis, History of the Present, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and elsewhere. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, among others.  

Moore received her PhD in History from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2020. Before coming to Yale, she was an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.