Aaron G. Jakes is assistant professor in the Department of History and the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization at the University of Chicago. His work deals broadly with the histories of the modern Middle East and South Asia, the historical geography of capitalism, global environmental history, and histories of colonialism and imperialism. His first book, Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism was published by Stanford University Press in 2020 and received the Arab Studies Institute’s Political Economy Book Prize as well as honorable mention for the Middle East Studies Association’s Roger Owen Book Prize. He is currently at work on two-century history of the Suez Canal’s many roles in the production of global inequalities, entitled Tilted Waters: The World the Suez Canal Made. His other publications have appeared in Antipode, Arab Studies Journal, Comparative Studies of Society and History, Critical Historical Studies, and the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.