Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Victor McFarland
Yale Department of History
P.O. Box 208324
New Haven
CT
06511
United States
ABOUT
I work on U.S. - Middle East relations and the history of the international oil industry. I grew up in North Idaho and received my B.A. in History from Stanford in 2006, with minors in Political Science and African & Middle Eastern Languages. At Yale, my fields of study include U.S. foreign relations with John Lewis Gaddis, post-1865 America with Beverly Gage, and the modern Middle East with Abbas Amanat. My dissertation examines the oil crisis of the 1970s, with a particular focus on the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. I have studied Arabic in Damascus and Amman, and have conducted dissertation research in Riyadh, Kuwait City, and other locations in the Middle East.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Energy Studies
Foreign Relations
Gulf Studies
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Gulf
Saudi Arabia
Specialties
The 1970s Oil Crisis
The Arab Gulf
U.S. Relations With The Arab World
Education
MA
| 2009
| History
| Yale University
BA
| 2006
| History
| Stanford University
Abstracts
U.S. – Arab Relations and the 1973-74 Oil Embargo
