Bandar Alsaeed
Background
B.A. International Security and Conflict Resolution, San Diego State University.
M.A. Political Science, Columbia University.
M.Phil. Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Ph.D. Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Research
Bandar Alsaeed is a historian of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. He obtained his PhD from the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University and holds degrees in political theory and conflict resolution. Alsaeed’s current book project studies how efforts by British imperial authorities, and later, multinational oil firms, to govern the mobility of pearl divers and oil workers shaped the idea of the “foreigner” as a category of political subjectivity in the Gulf.