Charles Anderson

Topics of Interest:
Modern ME History, Palestinian History, Peasant Politics, Agrarian Political Economy, Social and National Movements, Nationalism, Anticolonialism and Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism, U.S. imperialism and Foreign Policy, Settler Colonialism, Youth, the Interwar Era, History from Below

Countries/Regions of Interest:
Israel/Palestine, the United States, Iraq

List of Publications

"Will the Real Palestinian Peasantry Please Sit Down? Towards a New History of British Rule in Palestine, 1917-36," LSE Middle East Centre Working Paper (2015, under review).

“Youth, the Arab Spring, and Social Movements,” Review of Middle East Studies v. 47, n. 2 (Winter 2013), p. 150-56.

Charles Anderson is Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University. He earned his Ph.D. from NYU’s joint program in MEIS and History in 2013 and has previously taught modern Middle Eastern history at Rutgers, Bard College, and Georgetown as well as NYU. His first book project is a history from below of the Great Revolt (1936-39) in Palestine and its social roots. He is currently writing an essay comparing the Mandate-era origins of using "human shields" in Palestine with the practice’s more recent history - and claims made around it - from the second intifada forward.