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. Thomas obtained his PhD at Melbourne Law School on “Syria’s Changing Statelessness Landscape: 2011 as Critical Juncture”. In 2024, he was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. He 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, 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 intends to work on preparing his PhD for publication as a book, while continuing to theorise the legal landscape and exploring legal reform dynamics in Syria, as well as working on a project to develop a case law database relating to statelessness and nationality issues in the Middle East and North Africa