Professor Dr. Adria Lawrence Aronson

Biography

Adria Lawrence Aronson is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Political Science Department of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern and North African politics, with particular interests in colonialism, nationalism, conflict, and collective action. She is the author of the book 'Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire' (Cambridge University Press, 2013), which analyzes violent and non-violent mobilization for national independence against European colonial empires during the interwar period. Her scholarship has earned several accolades, including the 2015 J. David Greenstone Book Prize and the L. Carl Brown Book Prize from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. In her current work, she examines the resistance to foreign rule during the colonial period and its implications for the contemporary Arab world. Lawrence's expertise includes topics such as Empire and Colonialism, Ethnic and Nationalist Conflict, International Security, Political Identities, Social Movements, and State Formation.

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