Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Zachary Davis Cuyler is an Assistant Professor and a fellow at Century International. His scholarship focuses on the historical and contemporary politics of infrastructure, energy, and the environment in the mashriq. His academic work has been published in International Labor and Working-Class History, Historical Materialism, Labor History, and the Arab Studies Journal, and he has written on the contemporary politics of the mashriq for Middle East Report, Synaps, and L’Orient-Le Jour. Zachary’s dissertation, “Fossil Lebanon,” which he defended in the summer of 2023, examines how Lebanon’s relationship to the oil industry shaped the country’s politics, economy, and built environment across the mid-20th century.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Energy Studies
Political Economy
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Syria
Specialties
Political Economy
Environmental History
Lebanese History
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2023
| History/MEIS
| New York University
MA
| 2014
| Arab Studies
| Georgetown University
BA
| 2011
| History
| University of Texas, Austin
Abstracts
Building the Earth: The Technopolitics of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline in Lebanon, 1950-1975
“The Poetics of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline: Competing Visibilities of an Infrastructural Assemblage, 1950-1975”
Two Battles of the Holiday Inn
Oil Workers and the Lebanese “Brotherhood of Labor”
