- 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 author of the books Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System (Columbia University Press, 2023) and A Short History of the Gaza Strip (Simon & Schuster/W.W. Norton, 2025).
Experience
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2021–presentLecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, University College London (UCL)
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2019–2021Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration, University of Oxford
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2017–2019Teaching Fellow in Middle Eastern History, University of Sussex
Publications
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2025A Short History of the Gaza Strip, W.W. Norton
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2023Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee Sysem, Columbia University Press
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