Professor Anthony Teitler

Research Degree, 2014-2018

Doing a PhD can be referred to as the loneliness of the long-distance runner but this was – fortunately – a very different experience to what I had! Indeed, having the support and friendship of so many at the IoA made the experience a very pleasurable and dynamic one. Whether it was intense discussions on ethics, theory, history, culture, economics, methodology and politics or organising conferences as a cohort or participating in events or activism, the whole time at the department was wonderful.

In choosing a PhD programme I was looking for a department and supervisor that would stimulate and challenge me and the Institute of the Americas was a great choice. Having the support of Professor Iwan Morgan in cultivating my historical, methodological and interdisciplinary approach to research was an unalloyed joy. Whilst it was a long process my capabilities – slowly but surely! – developed and I was thrilled to complete my doctorate, which I subsequently refined and turned into a book, US Policy Towards Afghanistan, 1979-2014: 'A Force for Good'. I will always remember my time at the IoA with great fondness.

Subsequently I have gone on to work in academia and am currently head of a range of social science programs at a German university.

Book cover: 'US Policy towards Afghanistan, 1979-2014. A force for good' by Professor Anthony Teitler

Professor Teitler completed his PhD in 2018, under the supervision of Professor Iwan Morgan and Dr Tony McCulloch.

Learn more about his research project here.

Professor Anthony Teitler

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