Cyrus Schayegh
Associate Professor
International History
Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva
Switzerland
Biography
Before joining the Graduate Institute, Cyrus Schayegh was Associate Professor at Princeton University and, in 2005-2008, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut.
Research Interest
His current research focuses mainly on the interplay between post-war globalisation and decolonisation, Arab views of Afro-Asian decolonisation, interwar European inter-imperial cooperation, and historiography.
Publications
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Schayegh C (2015)The Interwar Germination of Development and Modernization Theory and Practice: Politics, Institution Building, and Knowledge Production between the Rockefeller Foundation and the American University of Beirut. Geschichte und Gesellschaft 41: 649–84.
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Schayegh C (2015)"The Mandates and/as Decolonization," in The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, ed. Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), 412–419.
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Schayegh C (2010) Seeing Like a State. An Essay on the Historiography of Modern Iran. Int J Middle East Studies 42: 37–61.
