Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (604) 822-5194
Department of History
University of British Columbia
#1297 - 1873 East Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
ABOUT
Jeffrey James Byrne is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. He works on the global history of decolonization and postcolonial international history, with particular interest in Africa and the Middle East. His first book, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order (Oxford University Press, 2016) received the American Historical Association's Jerry Bentley Prize in world history and Honorable Mention for the African Studies Association's Melville J. Herskovitz Prize. His scholarship has also been published in numerous journals and edited volumes.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Foreign Relations
Maghreb Studies
World History
Globalization
Modernization
Geographic Areas of Interest
Algeria
Mediterranean Countries
Arab States
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Maghreb
Specialties
Intl Rltns Of Af & ME
Revolutionary Natlsm In Af & ME
Third World In Global & Transnatl Context
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Russian (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2011
| International History
| London School of Economics and Political Science
MA
| 2003
| Intl Hist
| London Sch of Econ & Pol Sci
BA
| 1999
| Hist
| Yale U
Abstracts
Boumedienne Receives Dr. K: Oil, Interdependence, and the Third World\'s Apogee in the Early 1970s
Each of us uses the weapons available to us: The Algerian Revolution, the Oil Crisis of 1973, and the Apex of Third Worldism
