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 grassroots movements and ideologies shape society and politics in authoritarianism. 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.