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Alex Boodrookas
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
MSU Denver History Department
1201 5th St.
Denver CO 80204
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Labor History
19th-21st Centuries
State Formation
Colonialism
Gulf Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Arabian Peninsula
Specialties
Empire & Decolonization
Citizenship & Nationality
Labor History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2020 | History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies | NYU
MA | 2014 | Near Eastern Studies | NYU
Abstracts
Food for Books: Grain Aid, Area Studies, and the Weaponization of American Research Libraries The Making of a Foreign Working Class: Labor Activism and State Formation in Eastern Arabia, 1930-1970 Credit Lines and Color Lines: The Reorientation of Banking Networks in the Persian Gulf, 1940-1965 Labor Law, Segregation, and the Postcolonial State: Kuwait, 1950-1960 Comrades Estranged: The Struggle for Noncitizen Rights in Postcolonial Kuwait