Rohan Advani
Degrees
- M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (2022)
- M.A. in Near Eastern Studies, New York University (2018)
- B.S.F.S. in Regional and Comparative Studies, Georgetown University (2016)
Fields of Study
Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Middle East and North Africa, Singapore
Publications
Journal Articles
“Small States, Big Ambitions: Developing Global Finance in Kuwait and Singapore During the Age of Decolonization, 1952-1973” (revise and resubmit)
“Pockets of Privilege: A Historical, Spatial, and Political Economy Analysis of Industrial Zones in Palestine,” New Middle Eastern Studies 7 (2017)
Book Chapters
“Marxism and Neo-Marxism,” with Michael A. McCarthy, in Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023
“A Realm Without Rights: Noncitizen Workers and Exclusive Citizenship in the Gulf,” in Thanassis Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna (eds.) Citizenship and its Discontents: The Struggle for Rights, Pluralism, and Inclusion in the Middle East. New York: TCF Press, 2019
Book Reviews
“Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Andrea Wright,” Arab Studies Journal, 2023
“Book review: Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2023
“The Imperious Interventions of Gulf Capital,” Middle East Research and Information Project, August 28, 2019
Online Publications (selected)
“The Costs of War Extend Far Beyond Gaza,” with Thanassis Cambanis, et al., The Century Foundation, February 20, 2024
“Sowing Scarcity: Syria’s Wheat Regime from Self-Sufficiency to Import Dependency,” Jadaliyya, February 16, 2021
“A Dangerous Transition for America and the Middle East,” with Thanassis Cambanis, et al., The Century Foundation, November 25, 2020
“A Pit(i)less Blame Game at the Beirut Port of Institutional Corruption,” The Public Source, September 22, 2020 (republished by Jadaliyya on September 30, 2020)
“Constructing Commercial Empire,” The Century Foundation, December 9, 2019
“Economic crisis looms as the Syrian pound plummets to an all-time low,” with Waleed al-Nofal, Syria Direct, November 26, 2019
“A Realm Without Rights,” The Century Foundation, April 16, 2019
