Andrew Arsan is currently Professor of Arab and Global History in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John’s.
Andrew is a historian of the Arab world, with a particular interest in the region’s cultural, political, and intellectual history; European imperialism in the Middle East and North Africa; and diaspora and the transregional movement of people.
He is the author of two books, the prize-winning Interlopers of Empire (2014) and a study of contemporary Lebanon, Lebanon in Fragments (2018), and the co-editor of a major collection on the Mandate states of the Middle East. He has also published articles in journals including Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern Intellectual History, and the Journal of Global History, as well as a number of chapters in edited collections.
Andrew is currently completing a new political and intellectual history of the ‘Arab twentieth century’, for publication with Basic Books and Allen Lane.
He has previously held positions at Birkbeck and Princeton and was the 2016-17 Chaire Ganshof van der Meersch at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 2018, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in History.
One of the founding editors of the Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, he has also served as the reviews editor of the Historical Journal.