Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd

PhD Student at Trinity College, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

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 the Arab Gulf monarchies.

In my PhD research, I explore how nationalism contributes to pro-state mobilization in authoritarian states. I use both qualitative and computational methods to study Arabic-language sources. I evaluate more than 90 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.