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

• “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.
• “Sowing Scarcity: Syria’s Wheat Regime from Self-Sufficiency to Import-Dependency,” Jadaliyya, February 16, 2021
• “A Pit(i)less Blame Game at the Beirut Port of Institutional Corruption,” The Public Source, September 22, 2020.
• “Constructing Commercial Empire: The United Arab Emirates in the Red Sea and the Horn,” The Century Foundation, December 9, 2019.
• “The Imperious Interventions of Gulf Capital,” Middle East Research and Information Project, August 28, 2019.
• “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), 134-159
• “Pockets of Privilege: A Historical, Spatial, and Political Economy Analysis of Industrial Zones in Palestine,” New Middle Eastern Studies 7 (2017).

Advisors

• Kevan Harris
• Ching Kwan Lee