I am an assistant professor of history at UT Chattanooga specializing in the legal history of Israel-Palestine, Indigenous history in the Anglosphere, international law, and critical legal theory. I earned my Ph.D. in Middle East and South Asian Studies from Emory University and my J.D. from Boston College Law School. Prior to my academic career I worked as an attorney in Israel-Palestine, focusing on civil and human rights matters. My first book project, “State of Emergency: Law, Violence, and the Establishment of Israel, 1948-1966,” examines the incorporation of emergency legislation originating in Britain’s rule of the Palestine Mandate into the Israeli legal system and the ways in which it has shaped the regime’s relationship with the Palestinian community, the rule of law, and individual rights.