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Status: PhD Candidate

Adviser: Cemil Aydin and Sarah Shields

Graduate Email: kpb@live.unc.edu Twitter LinkedIn

Curriculum Vitae Personal Website

Education

B.A. North Carolina State University (2015): International Studies conc. Middle East
M.A. George Mason University (2017): Middle East and Islamic Studies

Research Interests

My interests are Middle Eastern social and solidarity movements, decolonialism, state-building, heterodox political economies, and intersections of class and state institutions. I’m also interested in knowledge production, think tank politics, imperialism, and pedagogy. My intended dissertation will study solidarity movements among the disenfranchised during the 1940s-1980 in Lebanon.

Some Notable Publications