About

Housed in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, the Centre for Nomadic Studies conducts research and preserves historical documents regarding the political economy of nomadic cultures.

The Centre for Nomadic Studies interviews tribes and people that continue to lead a semi-nomadic existence, digitizes materials from explorers and travel writers who wrote about nomadic societies, and hosts lectures for academics and the wider public.

The Centre of Nomadic Studies was founded with generous support from the Royal Geographical Society’s Thesiger Oman International Fellowship, and funding from the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. This support was used to conduct fieldwork and archival digitization of materials at King’s College London, as well as interviews conducted under the “Bedouin Civilization Project,” involving Bedouin in Saudi Arabia and tribes living in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

Director Samuel DeCanio FRGS, FRHistS is a Reader in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London.

Associate Director Dr. Kevin Mazur is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. His research focuses on tribal politics in the Middle East.

Haley Bobseine is a research fellow in the Centre for Nomadic Studies. She is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Defense Studies at King’s College London.