Research

Current Collaborative Projects

Family Business Histories

This interdisciplinary project of NYUAD and the Tharawat Family Business Forum will bring together scholars from the Humanities and Social Sciences at NYUAD to compile, document and analyze the history of selected regional family businesses to better understand past challenges and decision-making, as well as commercial legacies.

Other Projects

Feature Video — A World Transformed? Reassessing 1968 and the Global Sixties

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, this panel reassessed the global causes, themes, forms, and legacies of that tumultuous period and introduced the product of a successful research collaboration between faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai, and NYU New York, which led to the publication of The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building (Routledge, 2018).

1968 — The Global Revolt

Martin Klimke was the historical consultant for the four-part documentary 1968 — The Global Revolt looks at 10 years of upheaval between 1965 and 1975 — an era whose legacy divides opinion to this day.