Gareth Stansfield Reader in Middle East Politics Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, Stocker Road, University of Exeter, EX4 4ND, UK Tel: (0044) (0) 1392 264105 Mob: (0044) (0) 7764 499727 Fax: (0044) (0) 1392 264035 Email: [email protected] Personal information Administrative experience Nationality: UK citizen University of Exeter Date of birth: 26 October 1973 Faculty of Graduate Studies 2005- Member of Faculty Board Professional career Faculty of Undergraduate Studies University of Exeter (2002-) 2004-5 Member of Faculty Board Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies Member of Programme Accreditation 2005- Reader in Middle East Politics Committee 2004-5 Lecturer in Middle East Politics School of Humanities and Social Sciences 2002-4 Leverhulme Special Research Fellow in Political (incorporating the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies) Development 2005- Director of Graduate Studies 2002 Honorary Research Fellow Chair of Graduate Studies Committee Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House Member of the School’s Executive Group (2003-) Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies 2003- Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme 2005- Member of Research Committee University of Durham (1999-2001) Staff mentor College of St Hild and St Bede 2004- Director of MRes degree 1999-01 Undergraduate Tutor 2004-5 Director of Undergraduate Studies Admissions Officer (second semester) University of Durham (1997-2001) Member of Teaching Committee Centre for Middle East & Islamic Studies Modular Degrees Coordinator 1997-01 Research Associate Syllabus Coordinator (second semester) Staff-Student Liaison Committee Coordinator Education MA dissertation coordinator University of Durham 2003-5 Widening Participation Director Centre for Middle East & Islamic Studies Undergraduate dissertation coordinator 2003-4 Board member of Centre for Red Sea Studies 1997-01 PhD in Political Science Conference Convenor (BRISMES) 1995-96 MA (Distinction) in Middle East Politics University of Durham University of Durham Department of Geography 1999-01 Programme Manager of Iraqi Kurdistan Research Programme. 1992-95 BA (Honours) in Geography 1998 Acting Programme Manager of Iraqi Kurdistan Hulme Grammar School, Oldham Research Programme, based in Erbil and 1992 4 A levels, all grade A Suleimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. 1989-90 10 GCSEs Teaching experience Scholarships, Awards and Prizes Undergraduate teaching 2004 University of Exeter ‘Contribution Based Reward’ 2004- Nationalism in the Middle East recipient History of Iraq 2002-4 Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship (post- Politics and Economy of the Middle East doctoral) 2003- Geography of the Middle East 1999 University of Durham PhD Bursary MA teaching 1997-9 University of Durham PhD Scholarship 1997 Kuwait University language scholarship (declined) 2004- History of Iraq 1995-6 Hatfield College Postgraduate Award Nationalism in the Middle East 1995 University of Durham, Department of Geography, 2002-3 Research methodology W A Moyes Prize for Geography Research seminars for postgraduate students 1992 Hulme Grammar School Governors’ Major Leaving PhD supervision Exhibition 2005- US foreign policy toward the Kurds. Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council Gerald Regional security and the UAE. Pritchard Award for music Analysis of US policy towards Palestine-Israel Hulme Grammar School John Chadwick Award for and the National Security Strategy 2002. music 2004- Assessing the Oman-UAE boundary. Federalism and the UAE. 1 The socio-political impact of the Anfal campaign in Iraq. Board memberships Iraqi Kurdish identity in the 1990s. 2005- Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies advisory board Kurdish nationalism in Ba’athist Iraq. member. Kurdish nationalist discourse in the late Ottoman London Middle East Institute Papers on the Empire. Contemporary Middle East. Editorial board 2003- Federalism and the political reconstruction of post-war member for politics and international relations. Iraq. 2002-4 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies co- MA/MRes dissertation supervision opted committee member. 2005-6 Considering the state institutions of Somaliland 2001- Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI) advisory 2004-5 Assessing Britain’s role in Palestine board member. Kurdistan Childrens’ Fund advisory board PhD examining member. 2005 School of Government and International Affairs University of Durham Professional memberships/associations Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies American Political Science Association University of Exeter Durham Geography Graduates’ Association International Studies Association Research groups London Middle East Institute 2006- Centre for the Study of War, State and Society (History, Royal Institute of International Affairs Exeter) Kurdish Scientific and Medical Association 2005- Gulf Studies Programme (IAIS, Exeter) British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 2003- Middle East Studies Group (London and Oxford) Middle East Studies Association of North America 2003-4 Centre for Red Sea Studies (IAIS, Exeter) Publications I: Books/Collections Teaching innovations Books in print Undergraduate level 1. The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division? 2005 Co-designed new degree programme, BA in Arabic and (co-authored with Liam Anderson. New York: Middle East Studies, commencing 2005-06. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). 260 pp. 2004 Designed and implemented new module on ‘History and a. Revised and updated 2nd edition (New York: Political Development of Iraq’. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). 278 pp. 2003 Designed and implemented new module on ‘Geography b. Arabic edition. Iraq al-Mustaqbal: Dictatoriyya, of the Middle East’. Dimocrattiyya am Taqsim? (London: Al-Warrak Publishers, 2005). 424 pp. Postgraduate level 2. Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent 2005 Restructured MRes in Middle East Studies to include Democracy (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). 261 pp. new research training programme and regional language 3. The 1995-1996 Yemen-Eritrea Conflict Over the Islands of pathways. Hanish and Jabal Zuqar: A Geopolitical Analysis 2003 Co-designed ESRC-recognised MRes in Middle East (Durham: Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Studies, Occasional Paper no. 66, 2001). 80 pp. Books in preparation Research Grants/Fundraising 1. Iraq (contracted 2002, Cambridge: Polity Press). 2005 Secured £5,000 grant from UK government to consider 2. A History of Kurdistan (contracted 2004, Cambridge: British military posture in the Middle East. Cambridge University Press). Awarded £400 Overseas Conference Grant (refereed 3. Living on the Edge: The Trials and Tribulations of the Kurds competition) from the British Academy to attend the in Iraq. (contracted 2005, London: Routledge). Middle East Studies Association 2005 annual conference in Washington DC. Publications II: Articles and Chapters Awarded $38,469 grant from United States Institute of 1. (in press) ‘The Tortured Resurgence of Kurdish Peace (USIP) unsolicited (refereed) grant competition Nationalism in Iraq, 1975-1991’ (with Shorsh Haji for ‘Investigating Political Mobilization in Iraqi Kurdistan’ Resool) in Michael Gunter and Mohammed Ahmed (USIP-250-04F). (eds.) Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism. Costa Mesa, CA: Granted research fund of £920 from the University of Mazda Press. Exeter. 2. (in press) ‘Political Mobilization in Iraqi Kurdistan’ in 2004 Secured £111,000 grant (£37,000 pa, 2005-8) for new Faleh Abd al-Jaber and Hashem Daoud, eds., Ethnicity three-year Lectureship in Kurdish Studies at the in the Middle East: The Case of the Kurds. London: Saqi. University of Exeter from the Ibrahim Ahmed 2. ‘The Implications of Elections for Federalism in Iraq: Foundation. Toward a Five-Region Model’ (co-authored with Liam 2003 £2,500 from ESRC (University of Birmingham) for ‘Iraq Anderson) in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 35, War Archive’ Arabic language component. no. 3 (2005) pp. 1-24. 3. ‘Political Life and the Military’ in Youssef Choueiri 2002-4 Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship (£65,000 (ed.) Companion to the History of the Middle East (Oxford: – 50% from University of Exeter). Blackwell, 2005) pp. 355-371. 1997-01 Co-designer of University of Durham proposal to DFID 4. ‘Governing Kurdistan: The Strength of Division’, in for ‘Policy Planning Unit’ project in Iraqi Kurdistan, Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry and Khaled Saleh assisting the Kurdistan Regional Government(s) (total (eds.) The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq (Philadelphia, PA: app. £950,000). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) pp. 195-218. 2 5. ‘The Transition to Democracy in Iraq: Historical Legacies, 3. ‘The Bitterest of Friends: The Merger of the Resurgent Identities and Reactionary Tendencies’, in Alex Kurdistan Regional Governments in Iraq’, part of Danchev & John Macmillan (eds.) The Iraq War and Democratic USIP grant research. Politics (London: Routledge, 2004) pp. 134-159. 4. ‘Considering the tribes in Kurdistan-Iraq’s post- 6. ‘Iraq in Transition: From Occupation to Sovereignty’ in The Saddam political development’, part of USIP grant Middle East and North Africa 2005 (London: Europa, 2005) pp. research. 105-109. 5. ‘Assessing the role of Islamist organizations in 7. ‘History of Iraq’ in The Middle East and North Africa 2005 Kurdistan-Iraq’, part of USIP grant research. (Rewrite of previous essay. London: Europa, 2005) pp. 461- 6. ‘To be a minority in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: 507. The Political and civic organizations of the Chaldo- 8. ‘Political Parties of Iraq’ in Political