Cyrus Schayegh
Global Fellow
Professional Affiliation
Professor of International History, Geneva Graduate Institute
Expert Bio
Cyrus Schayegh (PhD, Columbia University, 2004) has been Professor of International History at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) since 2017. Before, he was Associate and Assistant Professor at Princeton University (2008-2017) and Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut (2005-2008). Presently, he is writing an Introduction to, and editing two volumes on, transimperial history; is editing a new introduction to the history of the Cold War in MENA; and preparing a second primary source collection with the ÀÖÓã ÌåÓý, Global Histories of the Twentieth-Century Middle East and North Africa.
Major Publications
- The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Harvard UP, 2017) (monograph)
- Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy (Bloomsbury, 2020) (ed. vol.)
- https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/essays/international-dimensions-decolonization-middle-east-and-north-africa-primary-source (a collection of translated primary sources)
