Contributors
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Nida Alahmad is a Marie Curie fellow (2010–2020) in the department of conflict and development studies at Ghent University. Her current work focuses on state-building as a form of political expertise and engineering and its connection to forms of academic knowledge production. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University and a visiting and research fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. She taught at New York University, the University of Toronto, and the New School University. She also worked as a consultant with a number of NGOs including the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Center for Transitional Justice. She is the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including a research fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace, and her dissertation won the New School’s Frieda Wunderlich Memorial Award.
Seth Anziska is the Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations at University College London and the 2016–17 Taub Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University. He focuses on the international history of the Middle East in the twentieth century, Israeli and Palestinian society and culture, and contemporary Arab and Jewish politics. He completed his doctorate in history at Columbia University in 2015 and was awarded the Oxford University Press Dissertation Prize in International History (2016). His first book, on the fate of Palestinian self-determination in the 1970s and 1980s, Preventing Palestine, will be published by Princeton University Press.
Tareq G. Baconi is a visiting fellow at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute. He works on the contemporary geopolitics of the Middle East, Israel-Palestine, and Islamic movements. His book Hamas: The Politics of Resistance is forthcoming with Stanford University Press (2018). Baconi completed his doctorate in international relations at King’s College London alongside a career as a consultant in the energy sector. He has an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge and an M.Eng. in chemical engineering from Imperial College London.
Antonio Giustozzi took his doctorate at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently visiting professor at King’s College London. He is the author of several articles and papers on Afghanistan, as well as of five books and two edited volumes, among which are War, Politics, and Society in Afghanistan, 1978–1992 (Hurst, 2000), Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency, 2002–2007 (Hurst, 2007), and Empires of Mud: War and Warlords in Afghanistan (Hurst, 2009). He also authored a volume on the role of coercion and violence in state building, The Art of Coercion (Columbia University Press, 2011).
Simon Jackson is a lecturer in modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Birmingham, where he directs the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History. [End Page 411] With the support of a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, he is completing a book on the global political economy of French rule in Syria and Lebanon after World War I, and coediting another, forthcoming with Routledge in 2017, on the interrelationship of the League of Nations and the United Nations. His new project uncovers the origins of the global food production system in late colonial rule.
Artemy M. Kalinovsky is assistant professor of East European studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches Russian, Central Asian, and Cold War history. He is the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2011), and coeditor (with Sergey Radchenko) of The End of the Cold War and the Third World (Routledge, 2011), as well as (with Craig Daigle) the Routledge Handbook of Cold War Studies (2014). More recently, he coedited Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era (Routledge, 2015) and is a coauthor of the forthcoming Missionaries of Modernity: Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony in Afghanistan and Beyond. He is completing a book on the politics and practices of development in Soviet Central Asia, which will appear with Cornell University Press in 2017.
A. Dirk Moses has taught history at the University of Sydney since 2000 and was professor of global and colonial history at the European University Institute, Florence, from 2011 to 2015. He is the author of the...
