Kanwal Hameed

Kanwal Hameed is a College and Departmental Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at Trinity College, University of Oxford. Their interdisciplinary research focuses on mid-20th century political movements in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly the Gulf's entanglement with broader regional histories and transnational connections under imperialism.

Education: PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter (2022). Former positions include Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Orient Institut Beirut, Researcher on the China-Middle East Mapping Connections project, and teaching roles at SOAS and the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH).

Research emphasizes anti-colonial struggles through gender, class, ethno-sect, and race lenses, utilizing archives, literature, film, and political materials. Current projects include a monograph on Gulf 'worldmaking from below' and an article on women’s roles in anti-colonial movements. Future work explores racialization under British colonialism and transnational post-1967 SWANA revolutionary movements.

Teaching includes tutorials on European/World history, historiographical methods, and a Further Subject lecture series on modern Middle Eastern history.