Associate Research Anthropologist | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Anthropology | Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies | Associate Professor, Arid Lands Resources Sciences - GIDP
Urbanization in Africa and the Middle East, complexity theory, economic theory, mathematical methodologies in anthropology and history, the history of credit, flood recession agriculture, the Sahara, the Sahel, North Africa, development, economic history, North African Arabic archives, bureaucracy in Africa and the Middle East, colonialism imperialism, anthropology of law, Islam, land tenure, 18th to 21st C European philosophy, foragers in arid lands, pastoralism, Pyrrhonic skepticism, political ecology.