Jacob Norris Author

Jacob Norris is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Sussex, following his Randall Dillard Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. In 2010 he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge on 'Ideologies of Development and the British Mandate in Palestine'. Jacob divides his time between Palestine/Israel where he carries out most of his research and Cambridge where he lectures and supervises on the Middle East components of the History Faculty's world history papers. His is currently working on a social history of Bethlehem in the nineteenth century, documenting the changes that occurred in the town as a result of its residents' global interactions during this period.