Alden Young
- Associate Professor of History and Global Affairs
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Office location
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46 Hillhouse Avenue
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Research
About
Alden Young is a political and economic historian of Africa and the Middle East. He has written extensively about Sudan, and he is currently working on a number of research projects that examine the impact of the Arab Gulf States in the 1970s on the Greater Red Sea region. Young is also writing a book on post-partition conflicts in the Horn of Africa (e.g., Sudan-South Sudan and Ethiopia-Eritrea) with political scientist Michael Woldemariam.
Young arrived at Yale from UCLA where he was an associate professor of African American studies and a standing member of the faculty in the International Institute. Before that he taught for five years in the history department at Drexel University. He has been a fellow of the Berggruen Institute and a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development and State Formation (Cambridge University Press 2017) and has published numerous academic journals and writes frequently in popular forums like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Noema Magazine.
Education
- PhD in African History, Princeton University, 2013
- MA in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2005
- BA in History, Columbia University, 2004