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Ben Kaplow is a political, environmental, and comparative-historical sociologist specializing in resource politics, state-building, and colonial and postcolonial contexts in North Africa. His research combines archival, qualitative, quantitative, and geospatial methods to explore the links between colonial resource politics and postcolonial agricultural development. By integrating social theory with micro-historical and spatial analysis, his work investigates the interaction of political institutions and agency to explain the legacies of colonial rule, state-building, land reform, and local development in Morocco. In addition, he has a longstanding interest in the formation and development of contemporary new religious movements.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science