CONTRIBUTOR:

Jörg Matthias Determann

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

History

INSTITUTION:

Virginia Commonwealth University

BIOGRAPHY:

Jörg Matthias Determann is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He also serves as Associate Editor for the Arabian Peninsula of the Review of Middle East Studies (Cambridge University Press). Previously, Determann worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Zentrum Moderner Orient and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin. He also taught at King Saud University and was a visiting scholar at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He holds a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Magister degrees from the University of Vienna. In 2013, he was a joint winner of the BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best doctoral thesis on a Middle Eastern topic. He is the author of three books published by I.B.Tauris: Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East (2018); Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East (2015); and Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East (2014).