Taylor M. Moore

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Taylor M. Moore is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East, specializing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egypt. For the 2025-2026 academic year, she is in residence as a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In July 2026, she will join the Department of History and the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University as an assistant professor. She is also a Junior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School. Her first book, Amulet Tales: Race, Magic, and the Making of Modern Egypt, is under contract with Duke University Press.

Moore's scholarship has been published in the American Historical Review, Isis: The Journal of the History of Science Society, History of the Present, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her article, "An (Un)Natural History," won the 2024 David Edge Prize and the 2024 Price/Webster Prize.

Born and raised in southern Louisiana, Moore received her Ph.D. in History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She holds a dual BA in Honors Political Science and Sociology from the American University in Cairo. Her research has been funded by The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships, the Social Science Research Council, and the Council for American Overseas Research Centers. She previously taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara.