Martin Bunton

Martin Bunton is a Professor of History at the University of Victoria, specializing in Modern Middle Eastern History, World History, and Colonial Land Policies. His research examines land legislation in Palestine, British colonial administration, and global historical frameworks. He teaches courses on the Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and modern Egypt.

Bunton holds degrees from UBC and Oxford (DPhil). His publications analyze colonial policies through comparative and imperial lenses, with recent work exploring the Indian Ocean economy and Chinese diaspora networks. He mentors graduate students researching topics like Nigerian resistance movements and gender in Palestinian land laws.

His scholarship intersects environmental, legal, and diplomatic history, often using primary sources to reconstruct land tenure systems. Current projects investigate conceptions of statehood in mandate-era Palestine.