Grad Students
Philip Hoffman
Philip Hoffman is a fourth-year PhD student, researching the framing of land reform in twentieth-century Syria. Before coming to UCLA, he worked as a researcher in support of humanitarian aid programs in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.
Field of Study
Middle East
Subfield
Modern Middle East (20th Century Syria)
Publications
"Skewed Recovery: Minority Assistance Programs to Iraq in Historical Perspective", Luskin Center for History and Policy, June 2021.
"The Syrian Political Opposition's Path to Irrelevance", Carnegie Middle East Center, May 2020.
Grants and Awards
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)- Turkish Language Award
Fulbright Fellowship, Amman, Jordan
Advisors
James Gelvin
Degrees
MA, History, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic Language, Tufts University