Chelsie May received their PhD from the University of Chicago's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. They held a Frankel Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year for their dissertation "Watching Whiteness Work?: The Racialization of Jewish Women in Iraq and Israel/Palestine." In the 2021-2022 academic year, Chelsie will be a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. Their research and teaching interests include gender and race in the modern Middle East, Middle East history, and intersectionality.