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Emilio Ocampo Eibenschutz is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the History Department at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and Zayed Military University. He earned his PhD in History at Cornell University specializing in mobility, colonial state formation, and global interconnections in the modern period.
He has developed, implemented, and published research projects in Middle Eastern history, archaeology, sociolinguistics, and cultural politics across different institutions in the region. His current book project, Mobile Papers / Mobile Subjects: Documents, the Bureaucratization of Mobility, and Colonial State Formation in the Western Indian Ocean, 1890–1950, analyzes how documentary practices shaped emerging forms of governance, migration, and political belonging across the Arab Gulf, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, and South Asia.
He holds an MA in History from Cornell University, an MA in Archaeology of the Arab and Islamic World from UCL (Distinction), and a BS in Foreign Service (Honors in Culture and Politics) from Georgetown University.
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