David Motadel

David Motadel is an Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar. His academic career includes a Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Sciences Po, and the Sorbonne.

His research focuses on Modern European History, Global History, and the History of Europe’s Global Entanglements. He has authored influential works such as Islam and Nazi Germany’s War and Revolutionary World: Global Upheaval in the Modern Age, with research spanning topics like Nazi-Muslim relations, anti-colonial movements, and global social transformations. His articles appear in journals like the American Historical Review, Past and Present, and Journal of Global History.

He has received numerous accolades, including the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2018) and Walter Laqueur Prize (2014), and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His teaching includes undergraduate courses on Nazi Germany’s warfare and postgraduate seminars on European empires during WWII, such as European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948. He supervises PhD students working on themes like British Empire and Islam and Eritrean Foreign Policy.