Dr Andrew Dougall
I hold a Career Development Lectureship at Pembroke, having previously been a Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Politics and IR at Oxford and, before that, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland. My research and teaching are in International Relations, a subject that fascinates me because of its breadth and interdisciplinarity. As a researcher, I write about the global politics of communication technology, mainly from a historical-sociological perspective. On the teaching side, I tutor PPE and History and Politics undergraduates, as well as our visiting students, across a range of International Relations papers.
With digitalisation upending world politics, my interest is in how we got here. I study communication technologies as long-term structures in international politics, drawing lessons for the analysis of contemporary challenges from histories of how media evolved. My first book, Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World (Oxford University Press, 2024), was a study of the rise of Donald Trump in light of a similar - but ultimately unsuccessful - nationalist ordering project in the 19th-century British imperial world. My current projects include work on generative AI and the liberal international order, the international politics of infrastructure building, and the history of data governance at the UNHCR.
I received my PhD from the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, supervised by Christian Reus-Smit and funded by an Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities doctoral scholarship. Before that, I completed an MPhil in International Relations and Politics at the University of Cambridge and an MA (Hons) in Politics and Economic & Social History at the University of Edinburgh.
Book
Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World: Struggles for Redemption in Britain and the United States (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Articles/other outputs
'Shrinking Planet, Expanding Imaginary: The imperial press system and the idea of Greater Britain', International Relations 37(1), 48-71 (2023).
‘Brexit: Britain’s Commonwealth Pivot is Nothing New’, Lowy Interpreter, The Lowy Institute (Sydney, Australia), (2019).
Dr Andrew Dougall
I hold a Career Development Lectureship at Pembroke, having previously been a Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Politics and IR at Oxford and, before that, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Queensland. My research and teaching are in International Relations, a subject that fascinates me because of its breadth and interdisciplinarity. As a researcher, I write about the global politics of communication technology, mainly from a historical-sociological perspective. On the teaching side, I tutor PPE and History and Politics undergraduates, as well as our visiting students, across a range of International Relations papers.
With digitalisation upending world politics, my interest is in how we got here. I study communication technologies as long-term structures in international politics, drawing lessons for the analysis of contemporary challenges from histories of how media evolved. My first book, Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World (Oxford University Press, 2024), was a study of the rise of Donald Trump in light of a similar - but ultimately unsuccessful - nationalist ordering project in the 19th-century British imperial world. My current projects include work on generative AI and the liberal international order, the international politics of infrastructure building, and the history of data governance at the UNHCR.
I received my PhD from the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, supervised by Christian Reus-Smit and funded by an Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities doctoral scholarship. Before that, I completed an MPhil in International Relations and Politics at the University of Cambridge and an MA (Hons) in Politics and Economic & Social History at the University of Edinburgh.
Book
Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World: Struggles for Redemption in Britain and the United States (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Articles/other outputs
'Shrinking Planet, Expanding Imaginary: The imperial press system and the idea of Greater Britain', International Relations 37(1), 48-71 (2023).
‘Brexit: Britain’s Commonwealth Pivot is Nothing New’, Lowy Interpreter, The Lowy Institute (Sydney, Australia), (2019).