Kristen Alff

Kristen Alff specializes in the history of the Middle East and North Africa and the global political economy. She is interested in explorations of gender, race, and the environment in the history of global capitalism. Alff is at work on her first book, Levantine Joint-Stock Companies: a History of Global Capitalism : 1830-1930. It traces the practices of competition and cooperation between joint-stock companies across the Mediterranean, which gave global capitalism its shape. Her second book investigates the evolution of land sales between Levantine companies and Jewish land purchasers in Palestine between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Alff’s work has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History and Enterprise and Society. Alff has also written in public history forums such as The Conversation, The Economic Historian, and World History Commons.