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Matthew MacLean
Independent Scholar
Occupation
Independent Scholar
Contact
Matthew MacLean
Brooklyn Technical High School 29 Fort Greene Pl
Brooklyn NY 11217
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gulf Studies
Urban Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Gulf
Indian Ocean Region
UAE
Specialties
Modern Gulf And Arabian Peninsula History
Infrastructure
Nationalism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
German (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2017 | History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies | New York University
MA | 2011 | Arab Studies | Georgetown
MA | 2009 | History | CUNY-Brooklyn College
BA | 1999 | Religious Studies | Yale University
Abstracts
Transnational Nation: Mobility, Identity, and Place in Emirati Memoirs The Politics of Development and the Transformation of Space in the Northern Trucial States, 1965-1970 Nation-Building and the Commercialization of Agriculture in the Trucial States/UAE: The Case of Digdagga, Ras al-Khaimah Infrastructure, Spatial Transformation, and the Emergence of the UAE Citizen in the 1970s Oil, Mobility, and State-Building in the United Arab Emirates Property, Indigeneity, and Development in the Northern United Arab Emirates, 1950-1985 Migration and the Making of the UAE Nation & State Teaching the Middle East: Views from a Specialized Public High School in New York City