Middle East Political Economy Summer Institute Network

2016 ​SUMMER INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS

Educators

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EDUCATORS AND TOPICS
​•    Sayres Rudy (Independent Scholar): Marx and Capital
•    Max Ajl (Cornell University): Marx and Capital
•    Adam Hanieh (SOAS): Class Formation  
•    James Boyce (UMass, Amherst): Political Economy of the Environment
•    Sandra Halperin (University of London, Royal Holloway): State Formation
•    William Robinson (UC, Santa Barbara): Imperialism
•    Karen Pfeifer (Smith): Labor 
•    George DeMartino (University of Denver): Critique of Neoclassical Economics 
•    Dale Tomich (Binghamton University): World Systems Theory
•    Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University): Peasant Politics & Rural Economies

Fellows

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FELLOWS
•    Claudie Fioroni (Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development, Geneva): Ethnography of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company
•    Ethan Jerome Morton (University of Arkansas): Palestinian Labor in the Settlement Industrial Zone of Mishor Adumim and Agricultural Labor on Settlements in the Jordan Valley
•    Salim Abu Thaher (Birzeit): Urban Socioeconomic Segregation in Palestine with Ramallah as a Case Study
•    Boian Boianov (UC-Santa Cruz): Politics of Water in Oman
•    Lana Salman (UC-Berkeley): Municipalities and Land Commodification in Tunisia
•    China Sajadian (CUNY): Reconfiguration of Rural Property Relations and Migration Patterns in Lebanon
•    Mohammed Rafi Arefin (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Politics of Sanitary Infrastructures in Cairo
•    Artemis Kubala (Independent Scholar, Palestine): Case Study of Stone Quarries in West Bank Economy  ​