August 31, 2017
Alex Winder received his PhD in May 2017 from the joint program in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. His research focuses on policing and crime in British Mandate Palestine, with attention to negotiations and tensions between Arab policemen and Arab communities and between legal and social order. He edited Between Jaffa and Mount Hebron: The Diary of Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Shrouf (Institute for Palestine Studies, 2016) and is associate editor of Jerusalem Quarterly.