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Andrea Wright
College of William and Mary
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Anthropology Department
College of William and Mary P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg VA 23187-8795
United States
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Ethnography
Globalization
Gulf Studies
South Asian Studies
Transnationalism
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
India
UAE
Specialties
Oil Production In The Arabian Sea, Labor, Migratio
Languages
Urdu (fluent)
Hindi (fluent)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2015 | Anthropology and History | University of Michigan
MA | 2008 | Anthropology and History | University of Michigan
MA | 2004 | Social Sciences | University of Chicago
BA | 2000 | Anthropology and Art History | University of Michigan
Abstracts
National Identity and Intra-Regional Belonging: Worker Solidarity, Tribal Affiliations, and the Shaping of Identities in the Gulf States Rethinking Tribal Capitalism: Oil, Labor, and Governance in the Arabic-speaking Persian Gulf Dreams of Modernity: Indian Migrant Laborers and Technostate Logics Disaster on the Oil Rig: Corporate Sovereignty and Vulnerable Labor