James McDougall (academic)
{{short description|British historian (born 1974)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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|honorific_prefix = Professor
|honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRHistS}}
|birth_name = James Robert McDougall
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974}}
|occupation = Historian and academic
|title = Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
|alma_mater = University of St Andrews
St Antony's College, Oxford
|workplaces = St Antony's College, Oxford
Princeton University
SOAS University of London
Trinity College, Oxford
|thesis_title = Colonial words: nationalism, Islam, and languages of history in Algeria
|thesis_year = 2002
|discipline = History
|sub_discipline = {{hlist|Contemporary history|History of North Africa|History of Islam|History of Algeria|French colonial empire}}
|notable_works = History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria
A History of Algeria
}}
James Robert McDougall {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRHistS}}{{cite web |title=List of Fellows (February 2024) |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/22170322/Fellows_February-2024.xlsb.pdf |website=Royal Historical Society |access-date=4 September 2024}} (born 1974) is a British historian. He is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Oxford and Laithwaite Fellow in History at Trinity College, Oxford.{{Cite news|title = James McDougall, Trinity College|url = https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/james-mcdougall/|newspaper = Trinity College, Oxford|accessdate = 25 November 2018}}
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Career
James McDougall studied French, German, and Arabic at the University of St Andrews, then modern Middle Eastern history and politics at St Antony's College, Oxford. He was a junior research fellow at the Middle East Centre of St Antony's College, Oxford (2002–2004), then assistant professor of history at Princeton University (2004–2007) and lecturer in the history of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2007–2009), before taking up a tutorial fellowship in modern history at Trinity College, Oxford, in 2009. He was awarded a professorial title in 2018.
McDougall's research focuses on the history of North Africa and the French colonial empire.{{Cite news|title = Professor James McDougall|url = https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-james-mcdougall|newspaper = University of Oxford|accessdate = 25 November 2018}}
In 2015, he supported an academic boycott of Israeli higher education institutions.{{Cite news|title = Oxford academics sign open letter supporting Israel boycott|url = http://cherwell.org/2015/10/30/oxford-academics-sign-open-letter-supporting-israel-boycott/|newspaper = Cherwell|date = 30 October 2015|first = Ellen|last = Milligan}}
McDougall has written for The Guardian and Times Higher Education.{{Cite news|title = James McDougall|url = https://www.theguardian.com/profile/james-mcdougall|newspaper = The Guardian|accessdate = 25 November 2018}}{{Cite news|title = Author: James McDougall|url = https://www.timeshighereducation.com/author/james-mcdougall|newspaper = Times Higher Education|accessdate = 25 November 2018}} In 2018, McDougall was involved in academic disagreement in Oxford with Nigel Biggar's controversial "Ethics and Empire" project.{{Cite news|title = The history of empire isn't about pride – or guilt |url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/03/history-empire-pride-guilt-truth-oxford-nigel-biggar|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 3 January 2018|first = James|last = McDougall}}{{Cite news|title = Oxford Uni don says 'peer pressure' is stifling debate |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42887083|newspaper = BBC News|date = 2 February 2018}}
Selected works
- Nation, society and culture in North Africa (Routledge, 2003)
- History and the culture of nationalism in Algeria (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
- Saharan frontiers: Space and mobility in northwest Africa with Judith Scheele (Indiana University Press, 2012)
- Global and local in Algeria and Morocco: The world, the state, and the village with Robert P. Parks (Routledge, 2015)
- A History of Algeria (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
References
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External links
- [https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/james-mcdougall/ McDougall's profile at Trinity College]
- [https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-james-mcdougall McDougall's profile at the University of Oxford Faculty of History]
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