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Professional Affiliation

Professor of International History, Geneva Graduate Institute

Expert Bio

Cyrus Schayegh is Professor of International History at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Before arriving there in 2017, he was Associate Professor at Princeton University and Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut. His most recent books are the monograph The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Harvard University Press, 2017) and the edited volume Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy (Bloomsbury, 2020). His publications on decolonization include 鈥淲hy decolonization?鈥� a roundtable, co-edited and introduced with Yoav Di-Capua, In International Journal of Middle East Studies 52:1 (2020); 鈥淭he Mandates and/as Decolonization,鈥� in Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, ed. Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (London: Routledge, 2015), 412-419; and 鈥淭he Inter-war Germination of Development and Modernization Theory and Practice: Politics, Institution Building, and Knowledge Production between the Rockefeller Foundation and the American University of Beirut,鈥� Geschichte und Gesellschaft 41 (2015): 649鈥�684. He is currently writing an introduction to modern transimperial history.

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Cyrus Schayegh is Professor of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute.