As part of the International History Forum, the International History Department at the Graduate Institute is pleased to invite you to a public talk given by Dr. Timothy Nunan (Free University of Berlin).
In line with the Graduate Institute's COVID-19 regulations, this event will take place online.
About the Speaker
Dr Timothy Nunan is a is a scholar of international and global history. Combining international history methods with the toolkit of area studies, his work looks at how actors from the former Soviet Union, Iran, and Afghanistan have sought to challenge the Western-dominated world order. Since October 2016, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Center for Global History at the Free University of Berlin. His position and current research is funded by a Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation. In 2020, he was awarded with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the major prize for early-career researchers of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
From 2014–2017, Dr Nunan was the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, where he ran the Global History Forum, interviewing other historians on global and international history. An archive of his interviews from his tenure at the Toynbee Prize Foundation is available at the Writings page. Since 2017, he has been a a co-editor of the Columbia Series in Global and International History along with Dominic Sachsenmaier and Cemil Aydin; and since 2018, he has also been a member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Humanity.
Dr Nunam's first book, Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan, Global and International History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) examined the history of international and development in Afghanistan during the Cold War, looking in particular at the role of the Soviet Union and Western humanitarian NGOs. His current book project explores Islamist internationalism from the 1960s to the 1980s.