Owain Lawson

Owain Lawson is a historian of environment, development, and social movements in the modern Middle East. At the University of Toronto, he is completing his first book manuscript, Power Failures: Development, Sovereignty, and Environmental Justice in Lebanon. He serves as Co-Editor of Arab Studies Journal and Co-Editor of the environment page on Jadaliyya. He previously was Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at Oberlin College and frequently teaches through Columbia and Cornell's respective Prison Education Programs.