Neha Vora is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology at Lafayette College. Her research and teaching interests include migration, citizenship, higher education, South Asian and Muslim diasporas, gender, liberalism, political economy, and the state, in the Arabian Peninsula region and in the United States. She is the author of Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) and Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2018)
Natalie Koch is Associate Professor of Geography and O’Hanley Faculty Scholar at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is a political geographer focused on geopolitics, nationalism, and state theory in post-Soviet Central Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. Dr. Koch explores alternative sites of geopolitical analysis such as sport, spectacle, urban planning, and other allegedly positive expressions of state power. In addition to her ongoing research about sport in the Gulf, she is currently examining ‘knowledge-economy’ development in Qatar and the UAE. She is the author of The geopolitics of spectacle: Space, synecdoche, and the new capitals of Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018) and editor of the book, Critical geographies of sport: Space, power, and sport in global perspective (Routledge, 2017). http://nataliekoch.com/
