Jeffrey Culang is a Senior Editor at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA. He holds a Ph.D. in modern Middle Eastern history, with a focus on law and religion, from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and has over ten years of professional editing experience. Before joining the Center, Jeffrey served as Managing Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and, subsequently, as a Research Associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. His own writing has been published in leading academic journals and in edited volumes.