Anthony Gorman holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a PhD from Macquarie University in Australia. Since graduating he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the American University in Cairo and in the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
From 2003 to 2005 he was an AHRB research fellow working on the ‘Cultures of Confinement’ project, an examination of the history of the prison in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He also held a Greek Postdoctoral Fellowship (IKY) in Athens, Greece, where he conducted research on the Greeks of modern Egypt.
His areas of research interest include the rise of radical secular politics, and particularly anarchism, in Egypt before 1914, the modern Greek Egyptian experience, the history of the Middle Eastern prison and the politics of Middle Eastern historiography.
Supervision
Dr Gorman is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate research on aspects of the following:
The history of the prison in the modern Middle East
Foreign communities (and particularly Greeks) in the modern Middle East
Radical secular politics in the modern Middle East
The History of the press in the Middle East
Historians and Historiography of the modern Middle East
Modern Egypt
Publications
Books
Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt: Contesting the Nation. (London: Routledge Curzon). 2003; republished as paperback, 2010. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415589345/
Journal Articles
‘The Failure of Readjustment (Anaprosarmogi): The Post-war Egyptian Greek Experience’, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 35 no. 2 (2009) pp. 45-61.
‘Socialisme en Egypte avant la première guerre mondiale: la contribution des anarchistes’, Les Cahiers d’Histoire 105-106 (July-Dec 2008) pp. 47-64.
‘In Her Aunt’s House: Women in Prison in the Middle East’, International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 39 (December 2005).
‘Anarchists in Education: The Free Popular University in Egypt (1901)’, Middle Eastern Studies 41 no. 3 (2005), pp. 303-320.
‘'Egypt’s Forgotten Communists: the Postwar Greek Left’, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 20 no.1 (2002), pp. 1-27.
'Old Comrades, New Struggles: Stratis Tsirkas and the Egyptian Left', Anti (Athens) 30 November 2001, pp. 32-36 [in Greek].
‘Egiptiotis Ellin’, ΕLΙΑ News no. 58 (summer 2001) 13-18 pp 13-18 [in Greek].
‘In the Shadow of the Nation, The Politics of Egyptian Historiography in the Twentieth Century’, Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies 3 no.1 (1996), pp. 117-126.
Book Chapters
‘“Diverse in race, religion and nationality … but united in aspirations of civil progress”, Anarchism in Egypt before the First World War’, pp 3-31in Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt (eds) Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Post-Colonial World, 1880-1940, Leiden, EJ Brill, 2010.
‘al-'aqaliyyat al-'ajnabiya fi misr: ma al-sabil ila damj 'aswatihim fi al-tarikh al-watani?’ in Hoda Elsadda (ed.) Fi 'intaj al-ma'rifa 'an al-'alam al-'arabi, Cairo: al-Majlis al-'a'la li al-thaqafa, 2010.
‘Confining Political Dissent in Egypt before 1952’, pp 157-173 in L. Khalili and J. Schwedler (eds) Carceral Practices: Prisons and Policing in the Middle East and North Africa. (London: Hurst), 2010.
‘Repatriation, Migration or Readjustment: Egyptian Greek Dilemmas of the 1950s’, pp 61-72 in D. Tziovas (ed.) In and Out of Greece, Diaspora, exile and immigration. (Aldershot: Ashgate), 2009.
‘Foreign Workers in Egypt 1882-1914: Subaltern or Labour Elite?’,pp 237-259 in S. Cronin (ed), Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa. (London and New York: Routledge), 2008.
‘Regulation, Reform and Resistance in the Middle East Prison’, pp 95-146 in F. Dikötter and I. Brown (eds.), Cultures of Confinement, A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America. (London: Hurst). 2007.
(with Robert Springborg) ‘Egypt’ in W. Phillips Shively (ed.), Comparative Governance. (Marlboro, NJ: McGraw-Hill) [electronic publication]. 2005.
Other
Revolutionary Movements in World History, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, s.v. ‘Egyptian Revolution of 1952’, 246-253. 2006.
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, Gale Macmillan, USA, s.v. ‘Egypt’. 2006.
