Jonathan Wyrtzen

Jonathan Wyrtzen is an Associate Professor of Sociology, History, and International Affairs at Yale University. His research focuses on empire and colonialism, state formation and non-state forms of political organization, and ethnicity and nationalism in North Africa and the Middle East. His book Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity was published by Cornell University Press in 2015. His current book project, Jihads and Empires, comparatively analyzes multiple sites from Morocco to Iraq--where European empires intending to reshape the modern Middle East met intense local resistance--to examine how new political topographies were forged in the region during the interwar period.