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Lama Elsharif is a historian of the Middle East and North Africa whose work rethinks Mediterranean history by centering Ottoman North Africa. Her book project, "Small Wars of Scarcity: North African Corsairing Between Crises and Empires," examines corsairing as a state strategy for survival amid environmental crises, political instability, and imperial transformations. The dissertation on which it is based received Purdue's 2024 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the Middle East Studies Association's Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award. She earned her PhD from Purdue University and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in an edited volume published by Amsterdam University Press, The Markaz Review, The North Meridian Review, and Gibraltar Magazine. She is also co-authoring a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of the Modern Mediterranean.