Andrew Arsan

Andrew Arsan is Professor of Arab and Global History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College. A historian of the modern Arab world, his research examines cultural, political, and intellectual history; European imperialism in the Middle East and North Africa; and diaspora studies. Previously he held positions at Birkbeck and Princeton, and was the 2016-17 Chaire Ganshof van der Meersch at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

His scholarly work includes the award-winning monograph Interlopers of Empire (2014), which received the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize, and Lebanon: A Country in Fragments (2018). He is currently completing a political and intellectual history of the 'Arab twentieth century'.

Professor Arsan has published in leading journals including Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern Intellectual History, and the Journal of Global History. He co-edited The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle Eastern Mandates (2015) and co-founded the Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies. His honors include the 2018 Philip Leverhulme Prize in History.