Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Zachary Davis Cuyler, Assistant Professor, History, “Fossil Lebanon: Oil and the Making of the Lebanese State”
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series
April 8, 2026
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Address
1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Zachary Davis Cuyler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and a fellow at Century International. His scholarship focuses on the historical and contemporary politics of infrastructure, energy, and the environment in the mashriq. His academic work has been published in International Labor and Working-Class History, Historical Materialism, Labor History, and the Arab Studies Journal, and he has written on the contemporary politics of the mashriq for Middle East Report, Synaps, and L’Orient-Le Jour. Zachary’s book project, “Fossil Lebanon,” examines how Lebanon’s relationship to the oil industry shaped the country’s politics, economy, and built environment across the mid-20th century.
Date posted
May 28, 2025
Date updated
May 29, 2025