Dr Jasmine Gani is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. She specialises in anti-colonial theory and history, and the politics of empire, race and knowledge production.

Her research has been published in International Studies Quarterly, Security Dialogue, International Affairs, Postcolonial Studies, and Millennium, among others. She is writing a book on ‘Racial Militarism’, using a postcolonial framework to analyse the relationship between race, militarism, and the state in both imperial metropoles and post-colonies. Her first monograph explored Syrian anti-colonialism against the US and Israel, drawing on archival research to trace the evolution of ideology and policy across intellectuals, social movements, and states. She was guest co-Editor of the 100th anniversary special issue of International Affairs on ‘Race and Imperialism in International Relations’, which examined the nexus between academic knowledge production and colonial policies; and she has co-edited books on the politics of the Middle East and the Syrian conflict.

Prior to joining the LSE IR Department in 2024, she was a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews where she taught ‘Postcolonialism and Decoloniality’ and 'the Arab-Israeli Conflict'. She has won multiple awards and nominations for her teaching at both St Andrews and LSE. She was also the Co-Director for the Centre for Syrian Studies at St Andrews which was awarded a ‘world-class’ ranking in the last Research Excellence Framework for its research and knowledge exchange.

Dr Gani obtained her PhD and MSc in International Relations from LSE, and her BA in History from King's College London. She sits on the editorial board of International Affairs, was an editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, and is Programme Co-Chair for the Global International Relations section at the International Studies Association. She holds a visiting scholar position at the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and was previously a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the US.

Research Cluster affiliation

Theory/Area/History research cluster

Research Centre affiliation

Middle East Centre

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Dr Jasmine Gani is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory. She specialises in anti-colonial theory and history; and the politics of empire; race and knowledge production.