Publications by Faculty & Alumni

Landscape Is...! examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. Following on from the previous publication Is Landscape…? which examined the plural and promiscuous identities of the landscape idea, this companion volume reflects upon the...

Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the...

Cash Country is an ethnography of money in times of political upheavals. Following the 2011 popular uprisings in Tunisia and across the Arab region, I investigate how Tunisia’s national currency, the dinar, has become a public object. From widely...

Regulating Commerce narrates how a distinct Ottoman jurisdiction for adjudicating commercial life emerged in the nineteenth century, and how this legal system worked in practice. The nineteenth century was a period of intense legal and economic change in...

The third installment in the Dongola Architecture Series, Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury, explores the provocative and often polarizing practice of Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury through an intimate lens rooted in Beirut. As with previous...

This volume explores major theoretical and empirical themes in the study of the economic history of the Middle East.

Despite the relative neglect of economic history in Middle Eastern studies, this book makes a case for its importance as a discipline of...