Noah Coburn has worked as a specialist for the United States Institute of Peace in Kabul, Afghanistan, as well as a researcher for the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Between 2006 and 2008, he spent eighteen months doing research in an Afghan village on the Shomali Plain. He holds a Ph D in anthropology from Boston University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Boston University, and Skidmore College.
7 Ebooks by Noah Coburn
Noah Coburn: Bazaar Politics
After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain …
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Noah Coburn: Losing Afghanistan
The U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of dollar …
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Noah Coburn: Under Contract
War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical …
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M. Nazif Shahrani: Modern Afghanistan
What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the ‘global war on terror’ now stretches into the 21st century with no clear end in sight, I …
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Noah Coburn & Anna Larson: Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan
Since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, researchers, policymakers, and the media have failed to consider the long-term implications of the country’s post-conflict elections. Based on fieldwork in …
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Noah Coburn & Arsalan Noori: Last Days of the Afghan Republic
It is difficult to overstate the chaos of August 2021 for many of those in Afghanistan, particularly those who had worked closely with the international community there. In a matter of days, U.S. tro …
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Noah Coburn & Ryan Derby-Talbot: The Impacts of Innovative Institutions in Higher Education
As they have done historically, innovative institutions enrich the college ecosystem, helping the higher educational industry develop flexible resilience. The chapters in this book showcase perspecti …
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