Ayah Aboelela
PhD in World History
Ayah Aboelela is a Ph.D. student in World History at Northeastern University. She earned her M.A. in World History and Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities from Northeastern in 2023 and her B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Arabic Studies from UMass Boston in 2021, summa cum laude. Her research focuses on the history of the nineteenth-century Hajj and its relationship with European colonialism and the Ottoman Empire.

Cohort: 2023
Research Interest: Hajj history, environmental history, imperialism, Ottoman Empire