Victor McFarland
I work on U.S. - Middle East relations and the history of the international oil industry. I grew up in North Idaho and received my B.A. in History from Stanford in 2006, with minors in Political Science and African & Middle Eastern Languages. At Yale, my fields of study include U.S. foreign relations with John Lewis Gaddis, post-1865 America with Beverly Gage, and the modern Middle East with Abbas Amanat. My dissertation examines the oil crisis of the 1970s, with a particular focus on the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. I have studied Arabic in Damascus and Amman, and have conducted dissertation research in Riyadh, Kuwait City, and other locations in the Middle East.
