Max Weber Fellow
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
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Thomas McGee is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of legal and social studies of the Middle East, with focus on Syria, Kurdish dynamics and the wider Levant region. He obtained his PhD at Melbourne Law School with his thesis on “Syria’s Changing Statelessness Landscape: 2011 as Critical Juncture” receiving the Harold Luntz Best Thesis Prize. Prior to joining EUI, Thomas was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and Universitat Pompeu Fabra’s International Public Law and International Relations Research Group. Thomas holds an MA in Kurdish Studies from the University of Exeter and a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge. His academic work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Human Rights, International Migration Review, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Citizenship Studies, Genocide Studies International, the Statelessness & Citizenship Review and the Kurdish Studies Journal. Thomas speaks Arabic and Kurdish and has worked for a decade as an analyst and advisor for humanitarian and development programmes in Syria. During his Max Weber fellowship, Thomas is revising this manuscript for publication as a book, while working on several projects about developments relating to statelessness and the Nationality Law since the December 2024 fall of the Assad regime in Syria.