Jamil Sbitan

PhD in history at Columbia University

Jamil Sbitan graduated with his bachelor’s degree in sociocultural anthropology from Boston University in 2014 and his master’s in Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University in 2018. He will be starting his PhD as a Richard Hofstadter fellow in history at Columbia University in the fall. Jamil’s research interests span Arab intellectual history, questions of biopolitics and governmentality, critical theory, and genealogies of modern political concepts.