Alex Hobson is a scholar of twentieth and twenty-first century international history. His book project, “Chains of Vengeance: The United States, the Middle East, and Wars of Terrorism, 1967-2001,” offers a critical analysis of the role of vengeance in U.S.-Middle East relations. He has taught at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Drake University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in history. Hobson’s writing has appeared in International History Review and Foreign Policy, among other publications.