Dr Daniel Neep
Research Interests
I am currently involved in three research projects:
- Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space, and State Formation: book forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (September 2012).
- Interpreting Authoritarianism: Politics, Practices, Meanings: workshop held at the University of Exeter in September 2010 with funding from the British Academy.
- Mapping the Social Sciences in Jordan: (January-June 2012) with BASIS research funding.
Research Supervision
I will be based in the Middle East from 2011 to 2013, but will continue to supervise research students, especially those planning to undertake fieldwork in the region. I am particularly interested in supervising theoretically-informed empirical research in the following areas:
- Politics, Economy and Society in Syria
- State-Society Relations in the Middle East (including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Israel)
- Authoritarianism in the Middle East
- War, Political Violence, the Military
- Colonialism, Post-Colonial Theory, Empire
- Historical Sociology and State Formation in the Middle East
I welcome potential research students with undergraduate degrees in Arabic or Middle East Studies as well as those trained in the social sciences. I am particularly interested in supervising students who wish to study Middle East politics in its broader social context, and encourage students to draw on sociological, anthropological and interpretive perspectives in political science.
Research Students
I am lead PhD supervisor for the following students:
Leen al-Habash, 'Civil Society in Syria'
Perla Issa, 'Political Representation among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon'
Michel Douaihy, 'Christians in Lebanon'
I am second supervisor to:
Asel Doolotkeldieva, 'The Transformation of State Power in Kyrgyzstan'
Idir Ouahes, “A Political Economy of French Imperialism: Syria in Transition 1908-1935' (Dept of History)
