Arie M Dubnov

Arie M. Dubnov is an Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where he also serves as the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies and Director of the M.A. Middle East Studies program. Trained in Israel and the U.S., he specializes in twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli history with emphasis on political thought, nationalism studies, decolonization, and partition politics. His academic work bridges Jewish history with broader global historical developments.

Dubnov earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010 and has since established himself as a leading scholar in modern Jewish intellectual history. His research interests span British intellectual history, modern British history, Jewish studies, and Middle Eastern history, with particular focus on the intersections between Zionist history and the British Empire.

His recent scholarship demonstrates consistent engagement with themes of partition, nationalism, and Jewish political thought. The 2023-2025 publications reveal a sophisticated approach to understanding Israel's place in global history, examining everything from British visions for the Hebrew University to right-wing Zionist radicalism, and from Israel's absence at the Bandung Conference to comparative refugee studies. His work often employs conceptual history methodology to trace the evolution of key political terms and ideas across national boundaries.

• G.L. Mosse Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Dorset Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
• Visiting Fellowship from the Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton
• Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin
• Senior Research Fellowship from Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte

Dubnov has made significant contributions to scholarly discourse through both his monographs and edited collections. His leadership as Director of the M.A. Middle East Studies program demonstrates his commitment to mentoring the next generation of scholars and fostering interdisciplinary approaches to Middle Eastern studies. His work on commemoration culture in Israel, particularly his conceptual framework of necrography, necrogeography, necropoesis, and necrochronology, has provided innovative tools for understanding Israeli memory practices.