James McDougall (academic)

Professor James McDougall FRHistS
Born	James Robert McDougall 1974 (age 49–50)
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Title	Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
Academic background
Alma mater	University of St Andrews St Antony's College, Oxford
Thesis	Colonial words: nationalism, Islam, and languages of history in Algeria (2002)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Contemporary history History of North Africa History of Islam History of Algeria French colonial empire
Institutions	St Antony's College, Oxford Princeton University SOAS University of London Trinity College, Oxford
Notable works	History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria A History of Algeria

James Robert McDougall FRHistS (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.

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.

In 2015, he supported an academic boycott of Israeli higher education institutions.

McDougall has written for The Guardian and Times Higher Education. In 2018, McDougall was involved in academic disagreement in Oxford with Nigel Biggar's controversial "Ethics and Empire" project.

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)

External links

• McDougall's profile at Trinity College
• McDougall's profile at the University of Oxford Faculty of History