Cleveland- My fieldwork in Iraq’s Kirkuk governorate on Jaysh Rijal al-Tariqa al-Naqshbandia (JRTN) was cited by the Mapping Militants Project at Houston’s Rice University. JRTN was led in the shadows by the late, enigmatic Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last major…
New York- My fieldwork in the Caucasus is cited in the report titled “Religion, Conflict, and Stability in the Former Soviet Union” published by the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica. My work for CTC West Point is footnoted in Chapter…
New York- My field research on North Korean monuments across post-colonial Africa was cited by the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea in their report titled Illicit: North Korea’s Evolving Operations to Earn Hard Currency by Sheena Chestnut…
New York- My fieldwork in northeast India’s troubled Assam state was cited in Bangladesh’s Fight Against Terrorism: Return from the Precipice by author Anand Kumar of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. Though much…
An article of mine from my days at Asia Times Online was cited in Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier by noted Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner. Great Game East explores the decades old…
New York- My work in Afghanistan for the Jamestown Foundation was cited in the paper “The Opium of Afghanistan: The Taliban Center of Gravity” by Lieutenant Commander Matt Ross. The Taliban infamously went from slashing poppy yields in the Helmand…