Residential Doctoral Fellow
Joan Chaker is a graduate student at Harvard University working on the intersection of Ottoman history and the history of capitalism. She holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and an M.A. in History from the American University of Beirut. In a previous incarnation, she worked as a money markets trader in Amsterdam and London. Her current interests also include the politics of money and credit.
"Debt as Colonialism." In the “Debt and Power” series of Progressive International’s Debt Justice Blueprint (April 13, 2021). Accessible online at https://progressive.international/blueprint/ed7d1fa4-892c-49f6-b617-127c60712793-debt-as-colonialism/en
“The Lebanese Economic Crisis 101,” parts I and II. Jadaliyya (Mar. 23 & Apr. 7, 2020). Accessible online at jadaliyya.com.
"مصرف لبنان يسخّر الإسكان لزيادة أرباح المصارف." Public Works Magazine (Feb. 17, 2020). Accessible online at https://publicworksstudio.com/banque-du-liban-hijacks-housing/
“Book Review: Carol Hakim’s The Origins of the Lebanese National Idea, 1840-1920.” Arab Studies Journal 25 no. 1 (Spring 2017): 150-4.
“Mule Drivers in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon: From Local Social History Towards Global History.”Almanack no. 14 (September-December 2016): 27-51. Accessible online athttp://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2236-463320161403.
“The Undertaker of East Beirut.” In Beyroutes: A Guide to Beirut. Amsterdam: Archis, 2010.