DR Nathaniel George
| Biography | Nathaniel George is Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East at SOAS, University of London. He is a global political historian of the modern Arab world and United States foreign relations. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between revolution, counterrevolution, sectarianism, and empire. Prior to joining SOAS, he was a Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies. He holds a PhD in History from Rice University, an MA in Middle East Studies from the American University of Beirut, and a BA in Cinema from the University of Iowa. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, among others. His writings have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, and have appeared in outlets such as Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East, Arab Studies Journal, Bidayat, The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, America in the World, 1776 to the Present, and Armed by Design/El Diseño a las Armas. |
|---|---|
| Research Interests | Politics and history of the modern Arab world, particularly Lebanon, Palestine, and the mashriq; global and international history; revolution and counterrevolution; imperialism and colonialism; sectarianism, racism, and colonial social difference; the United States in the world. |
| Teaching and Learning | In 2024–25, Nathaniel convenes the undergraduate modules ‘Israel/Palestine and the International’ and ‘Government and Politics of the Middle East,’ and, at the postgraduate level, ‘Sectarianism and Colonial Difference’ and ‘State and Transformation in the Middle East.’ He has previously convened ‘International Relations of the Middle East’ (UG) and ‘International Politics of the Middle East’ (PG). |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |