Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Magdalen College
High Street
University of Oxford
Oxford OX1 4AU
United Kingdom
ABOUT
I am a graduate student at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, reading for a DPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies to be completed in 2014. I have an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA, in Government and Linguistics. I currently live and work in Oxford. My current research projects focus on mass and social media in the Middle East. I work specifically on mobile technology, the Internet, and activism in the region.
In addition to my research on media in MENA, I'm also involved in a project on party system competitiveness and democratization in Latin America and Africa. My methodologies are always interdisciplinary, and I work (and have worked) with anthropological interviewing, content analysis, statistical analysis, and database creation. I have a background in quantitative research techniques, but I currently employ primarily anthropological and ethnographic methods.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Arabic
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Globalization
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modern
Pop Culture
Sociolinguistics
Technology
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Specialties
Mobile Telephony And Technology
Social Media In The Middle East
Transnational Protest Movements
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
French (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
MPhil
| 2012
| Modern Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Oxford
BA
| 2010
| Linguistics
| The College of William and Mary
BA
| 2010
| Government
| The College of William and Mary
Abstracts
A Revolution in Motion: Mediating the Digital Divide in Egypt through Mobility and Mobile Technology
Back to Normal? Digital Textuality, Activist Histories, or How the Arab Uprisings Will Be Forgotten
