Thera- My work in the Qandil mountains in Erbil governorate, Iraq along the border with Iran for the Jamestown Foundation wasd cited in PhD dissertation at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia (formerly the Czech Republic). Tomáš Kaválek, the Director of…
My Kirkuk Fieldwork Cited at Stanford, Rice Universities
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…
RAND Cites my Caucasus Fieldwork
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…
My Work on North Korean Statues in Africa Cited in DC
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…
My Work in Northeast India Cited in Delhi
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…
My India Work Cited by Yale University Press
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…