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| Born | James Robert McDougall 1974 (age 50–51) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Professor of Modern and Contemporary History |
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| Alma mater | University of St Andrews St Antony's College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Colonial words: nationalism, Islam, and languages of history in Algeria (2002) |
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| Discipline | History |
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| Institutions | St Antony's College, Oxford Princeton University SOAS University of London Trinity College, Oxford |
| Notable works | History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria A History of Algeria |
James Robert McDougallFRHistS[1] (born 1974) is a British historian. He is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at theUniversity of Oxford and Laithwaite Fellow in History atTrinity College, Oxford.[2]
James McDougall studied French, German, and Arabic at theUniversity of St Andrews, then modern Middle Eastern history and politics atSt 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 atPrinceton University (2004–2007) and lecturer in the history of Africa at theSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (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 ofNorth Africa and theFrench colonial empire.[3]
In 2015, he supported an academic boycott of Israeli higher education institutions.[4]
McDougall has written forThe Guardian andTimes Higher Education.[5][6] In 2018, McDougall was involved in academic disagreement in Oxford withNigel Biggar's controversial "Ethics and Empire" project.[7][8]
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