Political Economy Summer Institute Network

2017 ​SUMMER INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS

Educators

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Samer Abboud

Max Ajl

Joel Beinin

Sandra Halperin

Sherene Seikaly

Robert Vitalis

EDUCATORS AND TOPICS

• ​Samer Abboud (Arcadia University): Security - Development Nexus
• Max Ajl (Cornell University): World Systems Theory & Agriculture
• Joel Beinin (Stanford University): Labor 
• Sandra Halperin (University of London, Royal Holloway): State Formation​
• Sherene Seikaly (UC-Santa Barbara): Postcolonial Theory
• Robert Vitalis (University of Pennsylvania): Imperialism

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Students

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Amal Ahmad

Danya Al-Saleh

Kristen Alff

Nur Arafeh

Zachary Davis Cuyler

Omnia Khalil

Paul Kohlbry

Anna Levy

Jana Nakhal

Cihan Tekay

STUDENTS

• Amal Ahmad (UMass-Amherst), The No-State Solution and Its Implications for the Palestinian Economy
• Danya Al-Saleh (UW-Madison), Between Knowledge and Hydrocarbons: An Institutional Ethnography of Texas A&M’s Branch Campus in Qatar
• Kristen Alff (Stanford University), The Business of Property: Levantine Joint-stock Companies, Land, Law, and Capitalist Development Around the Mediterranean, 1850-1925
• Nur Arafeh (Al-Shabaka), Toward a Political Economy Analysis of Economic Resistance: The Case of Palestine
• Zachary Davis Cuyler (NYU), A Predestined Country? Fossil-Fueled Infrastructure and the Assembly of the Lebanese Intermediary State, 1890-1970
• Omnia Khalil (CUNY), Wikalet al-Balah: Cairo, Egypt
• Paul Kohlbry (Johns Hopkins University), Of plots and deeds: Land registration and the making of property in the West Bank
• Anna Levy (Independent Scholar), Outsourcing Governance Across Borders: Geography, Bureaucracy, and Dissent 
• Jana Nakhal (AUB), Women Cooperatives in Lebanon: A Model of Organization and Economic Production
• Cihan Tekay (CUNY), Electrifying the Nation-State: Generating Citizens in Turkey's Early Republican Era (1923-1950)