Dr Musab Younis joins the Department
The Department is pleased to announce that DPIR alumnus Dr Musab Younis has joined the team as Associate Professor in Political Theory in association with St Edmund Hall.
Dr Younis was previously Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and works on political theory in relation to race and empire.
He did his MPhil (2012) and DPhil (2017) in International Relations at DPIR and was previously a College Lecturer in Politics at Oxford’s St Peter’s College from 2016-17.
His research explores in particular the history of anticolonial thought, questions of space and scale in relation to empire, theories of race and racism, and ideas of global division.
His first book, On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought, University of California Press 2022) analysed French- and English-language archives produced by Black intellectuals, activists, newspaper editors, poets and novelists in Europe, the United States and West Africa during the interwar period.
On the Scale of the World was awarded the 2023 Sussex International Theory Prize.
Dr Younis is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and has also written essays for the Guardian, Prospect, Baffler, and n+1, among other publications.
On his appointment to DPIR, he said:
“I’m thrilled to be joining DPIR and Teddy Hall and can’t wait to be immersed in the intellectual life of the university.”
