Jasmine Gani is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on the history of European and US empires in the Middle East and Asia; US-Syrian relations; anti-colonialism; religion; and ideologies and social movements. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the LSE and a visiting scholar at Georgetown University with the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies. She has published on US-Syrian relations, Middle East politics, American foreign policy, and postcolonialism, and was a previous editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies.