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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL

Anne Irfan is a historian of the modern Middle East, specialising in Palestinian refugee history. Her work focuses on colonial legacies in displacement, internationalism, and bordering practices. She is the author of Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System (Columbia University Press, 2023).
Anne has spoken in the UK Parliament and at the UN Headquarters in New York on the situation of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, focusing on the plight of those fleeing the Syrian war.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, University College London (UCL)
  • 2019–2021
    Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration, University of Oxford
  • 2017–2019
    Teaching Fellow in Middle Eastern History, University of Sussex

Publications

  • 2023
    Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee Sysem, Columbia University Press