#  Ben Kaplow 

Hicham Alaoui Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program.

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** Colonization and decolonization; North Africa; land policy and the environment; political economy of natural resources; and state building.



 

 

 





 

 

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