Stacy E. Holden teaches about the modern Middle East and North Africa as well as US engagement with the Arab world. She is the author of The Politics of Food in Modern Morocco (University Press of Florida, 2009) and A Documentary History of Modern Iraq (University Press of Florida, 2012). She has written on war monuments, historic preservation, urban labor, and representations of the Arab world in American romance novels. Currently, she is completing a monograph on the impact of Edith Wharton’s trip to Morocco in 1917. A literary biography and a diplomatic history, this book will examine American responses to European imperialism in Morocco and other parts of the Arab world.

She is currently an Associate Professor at Purdue University with a Ph.D in history from Boston University and has received two Fulbright Grants, the Carter Manny Award ad Purdue University’s Enhancing Research in Arts and Humanities Grant.