ALEX MICHAEL HOBSON Curriculum Vitae December 2019

Lecturer 87 St. Mary’s St. Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Apartment 5 Boston University Brookline, MA 02446 406, 121 Bay State Road [email protected] Boston, MA 02215 312-547-9608 [email protected] 617-358-0918

EDUCATION PhD History, Northwestern University, 2017 Dissertation: “Chains of Vengeance: The United States and Anti-Imperialism in the Middle East, 1967-2001” Committee: Michael Sherry, Henri Lauzière, Daniel Immerwahr, Michael Allen, Carl Petry MA History, Northwestern University, June 2010 BA History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2019-2020 Lecturer, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University 2019-2020 Assistant Professor of Humanities, Boğaziçi Universty (Cancelled by Turkish government in August 2019) 2018-2019 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Northwestern University

AWARDS AND HONORS 2018 The Harold Perkin Dissertation Award for the Best Dissertation of the Year, Northwestern University History Department

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015 Buffet Institute Dissertation Research Travel Award 2014-15 T.H. Breen Graduate Fellowship, Chabraja Center for Historical Studies 2009-2014 University Fellowship, Northwestern University (5-year funding package)

1 2013 Research Travel Grant, History Department, Northwestern University 2012 Graduate School Research Grant, Northwestern University 2011 FLAS Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, University of Wisconsin- Madison (Arabic) 2010 FLAS Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, University of Wisconsin- Madison (Arabic)

PUBLICATIONS

2019 Alex Hobson (2019): Creating a World Stage: Revolution Airport and the Illusion of Power, The International History Review, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2019.1683050

WORK IN PROGRESS

Chains of Vengeance: The United States, the Middle East, and the Long War on Terrorism, 1967-2003 (Book manuscript to be submitted to Harvard University Press)

“Terrorism Expertise as Art: Brian Michael Jenkins and the Picture of the Post-1968 World” (Journal article to be submitted to the Journal of Modern American History)

“Anxiety, Fear, and Terrorism” (Journal article)

“Beyond Good and Evil: A Genealogy of the War on Terrorism” (Journal article)

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

2015 Insurgencies, Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Student Conference, Northwestern University

PAPERS PRESENTED 2020 “ Decolonization and American Empire in the Middle East,” Decolonization at Sixty: Borderlands and Violence, Boston University (March 18) 2019 “Beyond Fear: Emotional Communication in Osama bin Laden’s Jihad,” Future of Democracy in a Digital Age, Fourth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, University of Bonn, Germany (September 26-28) 2018 “The Transnational Origins of the Global War on Terror,” Conceptualizations of Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Recent History, SHAFR Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (June 21) 2017 “The Creation of the Essential Terrorist, 1974-1986 Ideological Transnationalism in U.S.-Middle East Relations, SHAFR Annual

2 Meeting, Washington D.C. (June 23) 2016 “The Sky is Not the Limit: How the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s Hijacking Campaign Reshaped Revolutionary and Counterterrorist Imaginaries, 1968-1972.” The Politics of Hijacking, SHAFR Annual Meeting, University of San Diego, San Diego (June 24) 2015 “The Anti-Imperialist Vision of Dr. Jurj Habash, Dr. Wadi‘ Haddad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 1967-1970.” Imperial Visions, Hong Kong University History Department International Graduate Symposium, Hong Kong (May 7) 2015 “To ‘Shake the World’: Operation Revolution Airport or How to Uproot Imperialism from the Middle East, September 1970,” Insurgencies, Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Student Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston (April 10) 2014 “Statements of Purpose: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine And U.S. Empire in the Middle East, 1967-1970,” Buffet Center Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston (April 15) 2013 “You May Not Unfasten Your Seatbelt: From the ‘Skyjacking Era’ to the ‘Age of Terror,’” Refiguring the 1970s: New Narratives in U.S. and International History, University of Chicago, Chicago (April 26-27) 2013 “Confronting the Failures of ‘Modernization:’ Two International Conference and the Invention of Reagan’s War against Terrorism, 1979- 1986,” International Doctoral Workshop on “Modernization and Social Change Bogaziçi University, Turkey (April 16-17) 2012 “From Black September to the Arab Spring,” Change and Continuity in the Middle East: Rethinking West Asia, North Africa and the Gulf after 2011, London School of Economics Middle East Centre, United Kingdom (June 11) 2012 “In Quest of the Goal: George Habash, Ilich Sanchez, and Abu Nidal in Confrontation with American Power, 1968-1986,” The Roles and Challenges of Diplomacy in the 21st Century: Inclusion and Exclusion in a Globalized World, American Graduate School in Paris, France (April 19- 20) 2010 “In Search of a ‘Moslem Billy Graham:’ The 1953 Colloquium on Islamic Culture in the Contemporary World and American/Middle East Relations,” War and Peace, University of Illinois, Chicago (April 16)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

FREDERICK S. PARDEE SCHOOL OF GLOBAL STUDIES, BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Sole Instructor History of International Relations, 1900-1945 (Spring 2020)

NORTHWESTERN, Sole Instructor Global History of Terrorism (Spring 2019) American Presidents and “International Terrorism” from Nixon to Trump (Spring 2017) U.S. History from the Civil War to the Present (Winter 2017) Ideas in U.S. Foreign Policy (Summer 2015) History of Islamist Thought (Summer 2014)

3 American Presidents and “International Terrorism” from Nixon to Obama (Winter 2014)

FREDERICK S. PARDEE SCHOOL OF GLOBAL STUDIES, BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Lecturer

History of International Relations, 1900-1945 (Fall 2019) History of International Relations since 1945 (Fall 2019)

SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Sole Instructor History of Terrorism from Antiquity to the Present (Fall 2015/2016, Spring 2018) History of the Modern Middle East (Spring 2017)

COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH

History of American Foreign Relations The United States since 2000 American Intellectual History Revolutions in the Arab-Middle East Cultural Encounters of U.S. Empire U.S. Wars in the Middle East

NORTHWESTERN, Teaching Assistant Law and Society (Fall 2016) American Studies Senior Thesis Project (Fall 2015, Winter 2016) American Cultural History, 1900-2014 (Spring 2014) The Century of Modern Warfare, 1914-2010 (Spring 2012) History of the Middle East—1789 to Present (Winter 2012, Spring 2011) History of Terrorism from Ancient to Modern Times (Fall 2011) Development of the Modern American City (Fall 2010)

RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS 2017-2018 Research and editing for Michael S. Sherry’s Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn in American Life (UNC Press)

LANGUAGES English (native) Modern Standard Arabic (advanced) French (advanced) Hebrew (intermediate) Turkish (beginner)

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

2011—Present American Historical Association 2013—Present Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations 2015—Present Middle East Studies Association

REFERENCES

Michael S. Sherry, Richard W. Leopold Professor of History, Northwestern University: Dissertation advisor and committee chair. Phone: 847-491-7191, Email: m- [email protected]

Daniel Immerwahr, Associate Professor, Northwestern University: Dissertation committee member. Phone: 847-491-7418, Email: [email protected]

Henri Lauzière, Associate Professor, Northwestern University: Dissertation committee member. Phone: 847-467-3654, Email: h-lauziè[email protected]

Michael J. Allen, Associate Professor, Northwestern University: Dissertation committee member. Phone: 847-467-3979, Email: [email protected]

Carl F. Petry, Hamad ibn Khalifa al-Thani Professor of Middle East Studies and History, Northwestern University: Dissertation committee member. Phone: 847-491-7448, Email: c- [email protected]

Erik Goldstein, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University: Faculty mentor. Phone: 617-353-9280, Email: [email protected]

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