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Ryan Cecil Jobson

Ryan Cecil Jobson

Ryan Cecil Jobson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research principally examines issues of energy and sovereignty in the colonial and postcolonial Americas. He is completing his first book manuscript, a historical ethnography of the Caribbean petrostate of Trinidad and Tobago. icon

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