Andrew Delatolla is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. In 2018, he received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the Department of International Relations.

His research interests include international historical political sociology, race, gender and modernity, conflict studies, and critical and postcolonial theory with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

His research is focused on historical political development and its impact on contemporary politics. He has previously written on how the modern post-colonial state reproduces colonial governance, using the case studies of Lebanon and Syria. This research project examined the history of imperial and colonial governance throughout the 19th and 20th century in order to better understand post-independence statehood.

Andrew is currently developing a project that examines the histories of gender, sex, and sexuality in colonial governance and its relationship to contemporary global governance and international LGBTQ rights. He is interested in how these histories can be used as a theoretical foundation to better understand international social reproduction.

Peer Reviewed Articles:

[Forthcoming] ‘The Lebanese Civil War and Post-Conflict Power Sharing: Continuation of Conflict Dynamics in Post-Conflict Environments’ in The British Journal of Middle East Studies

‘Racializing Religion: Constructing Colonial Identities in the Syrian Provinces in the Nineteenth Century‘ in International Studies Review, 2018.

‘War and State Formation in Lebanon: Can Tilly be applied to the developing world?’ in Third World Quarterly, 32.2, 2016.

Blogs:

‘Gender and Diversity in the IR Curriculum: Why Should We Care?’ The Disorder of Things, April 20, 2017.

‘Re-orienting Western Notions of the State: From the Ottoman Empire to the Present’ LSE Middle East Centre Blog, March 10, 2017.

‘Distortions by Andrew Delatolla’ PoL ArT Blog, September 20, 2016.

‘Book Review: Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East’ on LSE Middle East Centre Blog, Nov. 11, 2016.

‘Book Review: Saudi Arabia in Transition’ on LSE Middle East Centre Blog, Aug. 06, 2015.