Samson graduated from Colorado College with academic distinction, obtaining a BA in History-Political Science with a focus in the Middle-East and North Africa. At Colorado College, Samson was a student-athlete with the men’s soccer team. In his junior year, Samson was named to the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-West Team.
His undergraduate thesis, Irish-Palestinian Solidarity: The Juxtaposition of Whiteness and Anti-Imperial Irishness, examines the role of whiteness within historical narratives surrounding liberation movements and how these dichotomies affect transnational solidarity networks.
A Fulbright Alumni, Samson taught English as a professor’s assistant at the Université d’Alger II. In Algeria, he assisted the Ministry of Higher Education’s initiative for specialized English at the Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene.
Samson is a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow and will continue his studies of advanced Arabic at Columbia. His current research examines world-building and anti-imperial internationalism through 20th century transnational cultural festivals in the Maghreb.
