Projects
Research, writing, and other work
Selected workSupply Chain Empire: Infrastructure, Power, and the Making of Global Logistics
A 150-year history of Gulf Coast logistics infrastructure: ports, inland waterways, and bulk commodity markets, tracing how one region became the primary logistical engine of the U.S. economy.
Arbitrage in the Dark: Crypto Mining on the Frontiers of the State in Lebanon
When Lebanon's banking system collapsed, cryptocurrency miners quietly colonized three neglected hydroelectric dams, exploiting a narrow energy arbitrage opportunity created by state failure. A field investigation in the mountains of Lebanon on how informal capital responds when formal institutions collapse.
Read in Rest of World →The King Papers Project
Archival research contributing to two volumes of the King Papers Project, a 14-volume scholarly edition of primary source material produced by Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute.
Finding Place Through Food
An 8,000-mile self-directed research trip through eastern Canada, tracing how Arab diaspora communities carry their culinary traditions into new places. The inspiration for a popup restaurant.
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