My name is Ahmed Abozaid, and I am a political scientist. From September 2024, I will be a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow (Research Associate) at the Department of Sociology, the University of Cambridge. During this fellowship, I will work on an interdisciplinary project investigating the genealogy of state violence in the Middle East and North Africa region. I am collaborating with Prof. Hazem Kandil to investigate the entanglement between colonialism, sharia, and legal hybridity.
After receiving my PhD from the University of St Andrews, I was a Lecturer of International Security & International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton (2022-2024). Piror to that, I was a fellow at Columbia University’s Program on Exiting Violence (2021-2022).
I am an established scholar of Political Science and International Relations, with an outstanding publications record. Since 2010 I published 2 books in English, 9 books in Arabic, and over 70 peer-reviewed papers in Arabic and English (A Full list of my publication is available at my personal website: https://ahmedabozaid.com).
My dedication to the scholarship has been recognized by Arab Citation & Impact Factor, according to which, since 2012 I have been continuously listed among the top three most cited and most influential Arab scholars (among 3000 researchers from over 22 countries in Politics and International Relations).
My work is located at the intersection of International Relations, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Postcolonial/Decolonial Thought and Knowledge Production, Security Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. In particular, I am interested in the study of state-building, political violence, authority, world orders, and the legacy of colonialism and imperialism in the Global South.
