James Renton

Experience

• –present
  Reader in History, Edge Hill University
• 2016–present
  Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute

Education

• 2003 
  University College London, PhD

Publications

• 2017
  Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story? Edited with Ben Gidley, Palgrave Macmillan
• 2013
  'The Age of Nationality and the Origins of the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict', The International History Review
• 2012
  'Yad Chaim Weizmann and the Westernness of Israel', Jewish Historical Studies
• 2007
  The Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance, 1914-1918, Palgrave Macmillan
• 2007
  'Changing Languages of Empire and the Orient: Britain and the Invention of the Middle East, 1917-1918', The Historical Journal

Grants and Contracts

• 2016
  'The European Idea of the 'Middle East' and the Question of Power in the 21st Century'

  Role:

  Jean Monnet Fellow

  Funding Source:

  European University Institute

• 2013
  'The Middle East: The Rise and Fall of an Idea'

  Role:

  Principle Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Arts and Humanities Research Council

• 2008
  Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: Comparisons/Contrasts/Connections conference

  Role:

  Co-Organiser

  Funding Source:

  British Academy

• 2006
  'Transforming the Orient: Britain, Nationalism and the Creation of the Middle East, 1917-1922’

  Role:

  Research Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Hanadiv Charitable Foundation

Professional Memberships

• Royal Historical Society, Fellow.
• British Association for Jewish Studies, Executive committee member.