Works
Downloadable PDFs organized by type — research papers, presentation decks, and public scholarship artifacts.
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Research Papers
A historiographical essay on Brahim El Guabli's Moroccan Other-Archives — how memory studies reframe Morocco's Years of Lead, Tamazight erasure, and Jewish-Moroccan memory as living sources when the state archive stays closed.
The full research paper (49 pp.) tracing how newly independent African states used civil aviation — Royal Air Maroc and its peers — to project sovereignty and build postcolonial institutions, backed by an original airline dataset.
Capstone research paper (40 pp.) arguing that road infrastructure — not only diplomacy or arms — built the infrastructural power and sovereignty recognition behind Morocco’s position in Western Sahara, 1975–2025.
Co-authored archival study (with Anta Idya Sall) of the economics of river transport on the Senegal River under French colonial rule — how freight, concessions, and subsidy shaped a colonial transport economy.
Research paper on Morocco's Equity and Reconciliation Commission, the Years of Lead, and the political logic of transitional justice without punishment.
Slide Decks
Full 27-slide deck presented at NC State — the complete argument on postcolonial African civil aviation, Royal Air Maroc, and the dataset.
Presentation deck (22 slides) for the NC State Graduate History Conference — arguing how highway infrastructure helped Morocco normalize sovereignty claims over Western Sahara.
20-slide deck on Morocco's Equity and Reconciliation Commission, Tazmamart prison, and how truth commissions navigate accountability under constrained political conditions.
Public Scholarship
Methodology one-pager documenting the OSM and ohsome workflow for tracking Western Sahara road stock year-by-year from 2008 to 2025.
