Research Interests

Political economy of globalization in the Middle East and South Asia: Current research concerned with investigating the economic institution that regulate labor markets in the Arabian Peninsula and the rise of higher educational institutions in GCC countries. He has also published work on the economic and social history of the American presence in Europe during the second half of the twentieth century, and the political economy of nation-state relations in the modern world economy.

Work In Progress

 "Let A Thousand Models Bloom: Western Unviersities and the Making of the New Higher Educational system in the Gulf"

Selected Publications

•  "Segmented Ferminization and the Decline of Neo-Patriarchy in the Gulf", Comparitive Studies of South Asian, Africa and the Middle East (Spring 2008).
• "Ambivalent Anxieties of the South Asian-Gulf Arab Labor Exchange", Revista de Economia Mundial 14 (2006): 31-56.
•  "The Irony of Environmentalism: The Ecological Futility but Political Necessity of Life Style Changes", Ethics and International Affairs 19:3 (Fall 2005), co-authored with Paul Wapner.
•  "Work Productivity When Knowledge of Different Reward Systems Varies: Report from an Economic Experiment", Journal of Economic Psychology 25 (2004): 591-600, co-authored with Richard Burchett.
•  Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The American Occupation of Germany, Palgrave Academic Press, 2001.