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Research Report Roundup 2023-2024
A collection of reports from Ksenia Podvoiskaia, Robert Merges, and Miguel Fernandes who travelled to the UK for research with support from the Nicholson Center.
Faculty Spotlight: Ryan Cecil Jobson
Ryan Cecil Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology, recently published The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago.
Examining the past, present, and future of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil and gas industries, Jobson traces how a model of governance fashioned during prior oil booms is imperiled by declining fossil fuel production and a loss of state control. Despite the twin-island nation’s increasingly volatile and vulnerable financial condition, government officials continue to promote it as a land of inexhaustible resources and potentially limitless profits.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Tyler Lutz
An interview with Ph.D. Candidate in English Tyler Lutz about the imperial aesthetics of British map making.
Research Report Roundup 2022-2023
A collection of reports from Sarah-Gray Lesley, Xiaoyu Gao, Megan Maxwell and Ashima Mittal, who travelled to the UK for research with support from the Nicholson Center.