Samantha Gayathri Iyer Department of History, Fordham University 441 East Fordham Road, Dealy Hall Bronx, NY 10458 Email: [email protected]

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Fordham University, Fall 2016 to present Assistant Professor of History , 2014 - 2016 Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Warren Center for Studies in American History

EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley Ph.D., History, 2014 Dissertation: “The Paradox of Poverty and Plenty: Egypt, India, and Rise of U.S. Food Aid, 1870s-1950s” (Committee: Richard Candida-Smith (chair), Beshara Doumani, Gillian Hart, James Vernon)

University of Chicago B.A., Sociology, 2004 (with general honors and honors in sociology)

PUBLICATIONS “Colonial Population and the Idea of Development,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55(1) (2013): 65-91.

Review of Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth by Alison Bashford, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2015, doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jru037.

Review of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action During the American Century by Alyosha Goldstein, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 56(1) (2014): 249-250.

AWARDS Gilbert C. Fite Award for the Best Dissertation on Agricultural History, 2014 Agricultural History Society

David Hollinger Prize in Intellectual History, 2014 University of California, Berkeley, Department of History

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Summer Program, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2016 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013-2014 Mabelle McLeod Lewis Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013-2014 (declined) Graduate Division Summer Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 2012 and 2013 Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2012 Moody Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, 2011-2012 Eisenhower Research Grant, Jeffcoat Memorial Foundation, 2011- 2012 Dean’s Time Normative Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, Spring 2012 Simpson Research Fellowship, Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 2011-2012 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2010-2011 Fulbright IIE, U.S. Department of State, 2010-2011 (for Egypt) Critical Language Enhancement Award, U.S. Department of State, 2010 (For study of Modern Standard and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic) Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2008-2009 (For study of Modern Standard Arabic) Service Corps Fellowship, American India Foundation, 2005-2006 (To work at People's Watch-Tamil Nadu, a human rights organization in Madurai, India) Patrick Stewart Human Rights Scholarship, Amnesty International, 2001 (To work at Coalition Nationale des Droits des Haïtiens, a human rights organization in Port-au- Prince, Haiti)

TEACHING Harvard University Lecturer, Department of History Time and Place in the History of American Capitalism, Spring 2016

Work and Working in Global Perspective, Fall 2014

University of California, Berkeley Teaching Assistant, Department of History The Middle East, Spring 2013 Instructor: Thomas Hill

Iyer 2 The from the Late 19th Century to the Beginning of the Cold War, Fall 2012 Instructor: Richard Candida-Smith

The United States and International Relations, Spring 2010 Instructor: Daniel Sargent

U.S. History: the Civil War to the Present, Spring 2008 Instructor: Kathleen Frydl

Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography Introduction to Development, Fall 2009 Instructor: Carolyn Trist

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS “Colonial Population and the Idea of Development,” Center for Global Health Histories, University of York, 2 June 2016, York, U.K.

“Food for the Farmworkers: Welfare in California Agriculture,” Global American Studies Symposium, Harvard University, 25 September 2015, Cambridge, MA

“Remembering the Land: American Agriculture and the Politics of Food Stamps,” Planetary Natures Conference, 10-11 July 2015, Binghamton, NY

"Debt and Difference: the Politics of Agriculture in an Age of Global Crisis," Global American Studies Symposium, Harvard University, 11 December 2014, Cambridge, MA

“Agricultural Statistics and Rural Credit in an Age of Crisis,” Annual Conference of Social Science History Association, 21 November 2013, Chicago, IL

“The Emergence of the Post-War International Food Order,” Annual Conference of Association of American Geographers,” 10 April 2013, Los Angles, CA

“The Fictitious Commodity of Land and Egypt’s Grain Market, 1890-1939,” Annual Conference of Middle East Studies Association, 18 November 2012, Denver, CO

“A History of Demographic Thought: Late Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Development Narratives,” Berkeley International and Global History Conference, 5 March 2011, Berkeley, CA

LANGUAGES Arabic: Fluent reading and speaking (Egyptian colloquial), proficient writing French: Fluent reading and speaking, proficient writing Tamil: Proficient reading, fluent speaking, basic writing

Iyer 3 /Urdu: Proficient reading, speaking, writing (currently learning)

SERVICE Manuscript reader for Journal of International Political Sociology Organizing Committee Member, Berkeley Global and International History Conference, 2011 and 2013 Recording Secretary, Berkeley Campus, United Auto Workers Local 2865 (Union for Teaching Assistants, Readers, and Tutors at the University of California), 2007-2008.

PROFSSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Society for Historians of American Foreign Affairs Middle East Studies Association Association of American Geographers Economic History Association

REFERENCES Richard Candida-Smith, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley 3229 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 / 510-643-4787 / [email protected]

Beshara Doumani, Joukowsky Family Professor of History, Box N, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912 / 401-863-5387 / [email protected]

Gillian Hart, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley 507 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 / 510-642-3903 / [email protected]

James Vernon, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley 3229 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 / 510-642-2362 / [email protected]

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