Alice Ella Finden

Alice Ella Finden is an Assistant Professor in International Politics at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and a member of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

• Education: PhD in International Politics from SOAS, University of London.

Research interests span colonialism and empire, critical terrorism studies, feminist and queer theories, post-colonial theory, qualitative methods (archival and interviews), and the normalization of violence. Her work investigates colonial histories and presents in counterterrorism, focusing on the racialized, gendered, and classed subjugation of communities as 'vulnerable' to extremism.

Publications include her 2025 book Counterterrorism and Colonialism: Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt, a 2025 chapter on colonial law, and co-edited interdisciplinary volumes. Her 2024 journal articles address Palestine's erasure in terrorism studies and postcolonial legitimacy in India/Egypt. Methodological innovations include decolonial feminist 'counter-mapping' (2023) and genealogies of suspicion in colonial Egypt (2021, 2018).

Supervision: Currently advising PhD student Seun Twins. Her decolonial pedagogical projects engage students with archival spaces.