St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden,St Antony's specialises in international relations,economics,politics,and area studies relative to Europe,Russia,former Soviet states,Latin America,the Middle East,Africa,Japan,China,and South and South East Asia.
Albert Habib Hourani,was a liberal Lebanese British historian,specialising in the history of the Middle East and Middle Eastern studies.
Robert John Service is a post-revisionist British historian,academic,and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union,particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He was until 2013 a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford,a Fellow of St Antony's College,Oxford,and a senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is best known for his biographies of Vladimir Lenin,Joseph Stalin,and Leon Trotsky. He has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998.
Sir Noel Robert Malcolm,is an English political journalist,historian and academic who is a senior research fellow at All Souls College,Oxford. A King's Scholar at Eton College,Malcolm read history at Peterhouse,Cambridge,and received his doctorate in history from Trinity College,Cambridge. He was a Fellow and College Lecturer of Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge,before becoming a political and foreign affairs journalist for The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph.
Sir David Nicholas Cannadine is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history,Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University,a visiting professor of history at Oxford University,and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was president of the British Academy between 2017 and 2021,the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as the chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and vice-chair of the editorial board of Past &Present.
Robert Fitzroy 'Roy' Foster,publishing as R. F. Foster,is an Irish historian and academic. He was the Carroll Professor of Irish History from 1991 until 2016 at Hertford College,Oxford.
Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA was an English historian and Orientalist,specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies.
Geoffrey Alan Hosking is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College,London. He also co-founded Nightline.
Geoffrey Lewis Lewis was an English Turkologist and the first Professor of Turkish at the University of Oxford. He is known as the author of Teach Yourself Turkish and academic books about Turkish and Turkey.
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,is a subdivision of the University of Oxford.
Charles Rees Howard Tripp,is an academic and author specializing in the politics and history of the Near and Middle East.
Andrew James Hurrell,FBA is a leading British scholar of international relations. He is currently a senior research fellow at Balliol College,Oxford,having previously been Montague Burton Professor of International Relations from 2008 to 2021.
Sir Keith Vivian Thomas is a Welsh historian of the early modern world based at Oxford University. He is best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World. From 1986 to 2000,he was president of Corpus Christi College,Oxford.
Colin David Hugh Jones is a British historian of France and professor of history at Queen Mary University of London.
Edward Roger John Owen was a British historian who wrote several classic works on the history of the modern Middle East. His research interests included the economic,social and political history of the Middle East,especially Egypt,from 1800 to the present,as well as the theories of imperialism,including military occupations.
Ngaire Tui Woods is the founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and professor of Global Economic Governance at the University of Oxford,formerly a professor at Harvard University. She founded the Global Economic Governance Programme and is the co-founder of the Oxford–Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is a French academic palaeographer who specialises in medieval Jewish manuscripts. Since September 2018,she has been President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford.
Henrietta Katherine Harrison,is a British historian,sinologist,and academic. Since 2012,she has been Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford. She was previously a junior research fellow at St Anne's College,Oxford (1996–1998),a lecturer in Chinese at the University of Leeds (1999–2006),and a professor at Harvard University (2006–2012).
The 1915 uprising in Karbala was an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire that took place in June 1915.
Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon is an early modern historian and specialist in the colonial history of India. She is a retired Professor in Indian History and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,University of Oxford. O'Hanlon is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.
