Trinity College

CB2 1TQ Cambridge, UK

bs674[at]cam.ac.uk

@BrunoFeuerheerd

@brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social

I specialize in the fields of comparative politics and international relations with a focus on the states and societies in the Arab Middle East. Particularly, I am interested in contemporary politics in Saudi Arabia and the other the Arab Gulf monarchies.

In my PhD research, I explore how grassroots movements and ideologies shape society and politics in authoritarianism, with a particular focus on questions of political legitimation and nationalist mobilization. I use both qualitative and computational methods to study Arabic-language sources. I evaluate around 100 original interviews with Saudi nationalists and patriots, archival work covering some 30,000 pages of a cultural magazine dating to the 1970s, and social media data that I collected over several months of field research in Saudi Arabia.