Anne Irfan

Anne Irfan

Dissertation

Dr Anne Irfan is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London (UCL). After completing the Dual MA/MSc, she gained a PhD in International History at the LSE, writing her doctoral thesis on the internationalisation of the Palestinian refugee camps. She subsequently worked for Oxford University and the University of Sussex before taking up her permanent lectureship at UCL in 2021. Anne has published several award-winning articles in outlets including the Journal of Refugee Studies, Journal of Palestine Studies, Contemporary Levant and Jerusalem Quarterly. Her book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System was published with Columbia University Press in 2023. 

Anne is currently Principal Investigator on the research project Borders, global governance and the refugee 1947-51, for which she received a £50,000 grant from the British Academy. In addition to her academic work, she serves as a consultant and has contributed her expertise on Middle Eastern politics to The Washington Post, The Nation and Al Jazeera. She has also addressed the UN and the UK Parliament on six occasions on issues relating to displacement in the contemporary Levant.