Apr 8 2026

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

Zachary Davis Cuyler

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.

Contact

Institute for the Humanities

Date posted

May 28, 2025

Date updated

May 29, 2025