Eugene Lawrence Rogan, (born 31 October 1960) is an American historian of the

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from the late

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to the present.

Education and career

After completing his undergraduate degree at

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in economics, he pursued a masters degree in Middle Eastern studies at

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, graduating in 1984, after which he completed a doctorate in Middle Eastern studies at the same university in 1991. Rogan joined the University of Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies as a lecturer in 1991. Since 1991, he has been a Fellow at

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, and Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the

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since 2015."Professor Eugene Rogan"
''St Antony's College, Oxford''. Retrieved 22 December 2018.

Honours

In July 2017, Rogan was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

Personal life

Rogan is married to Oxford professor

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, who is also the founding dean of the

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Selected works

*''Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire'' (Cambridge University Press, 1999). *''The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948'' (Cambridge University Press, 2001). *''Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East'' (I.B. Tauris, 2002). *''The Arabs: A History'' (Penguin, 2009). *''The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920'' (Penguin, 2015).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rogan, Eugene 1960 births Living people Columbia College (New York) alumni Harvard University alumni Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Historians of the Middle East