James McDougall (born 1974) is a British historian. He is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

and Laithwaite Fellow in History at

Trinity College, Oxford (That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody) , named_for = The Holy Trinity , established = , sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge , president = Dame Hilary Boulding , location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH , coordinates ...

Career

James McDougall studied French, German, and Arabic at the

University of St Andrews (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment ...

, then modern Middle Eastern history and politics at St Antony's College, Oxford. He was a junior research fellow at the Middle East Centre of St Antony's College, Oxford (2002–2004), then assistant professor of history at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

(2004–2007) and lecturer in the history of Africa at the

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury ar ...

(2007–2009), before taking up a tutorial fellowship in modern history at Trinity College, Oxford, in 2009. He was awarded a professorial title in 2018. McDougall's research focuses on the history of

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and the French colonial empire. In 2015, he supported an academic boycott of Israeli higher education institutions. McDougall has written for ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2018, McDougall was involved in academic disagreement in Oxford with

Nigel Biggar Nigel John Biggar (born 14 March 1955) is a British Anglican priest and theologian. From 2007 to 2022, he has been Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford. Early life Biggar was born on 14 March 1955 in Cas ...

's controversial "Ethics and Empire" project.

Selected works

* ''Nation, society and culture in North Africa'' (Routledge, 2003) * ''History and the culture of nationalism in Algeria'' (Cambridge University Press, 2006) * ''Saharan frontiers: Space and mobility in northwest Africa'' with Judith Scheele (Indiana University Press, 2012) * ''Global and local in Algeria and Morocco: The world, the state, and the village'' with Robert P. Parks (Routledge, 2015) * ''A History of Algeria'' (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

References

External links

McDougall's profile at Trinity College

McDougall's profile at the University of Oxford Faculty of History
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