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Johan Mathew
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
History Department, Rutgers University
111 Van Dyck Hall 16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick NJ 08901
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Gulf Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
South Asian Studies
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
India
Indian Ocean Region
Oman
Yemen
Specialties
History Of Capitalism/Economic History
Slavery And Labor
Crime And Informal Economies
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Urdu (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2012 | History | Harvard University
BA | 2004 | History | Princeton University
Abstracts
From Slave Trade to Labor Market: Commoditizing Labor in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean, 1845-1929 Gentlemanly Capitalists and Salacious Smugglers: Alternative histories of shipping in the Arabian Sea 1873-1947 Janus Spaces of Capital: Ports, Bandars and Arabian Nodes of the Indian Ocean World On Principals and Agency: Reconsidering Trust in Arabian Economies