Tudor Parfitt

Tudor Parfitt is Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University and Emeritus Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. He worked in Jerusalem for a year with VSO before studying Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford. After a year as Goodenday Fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he completed a D.Phil at Oxford before embarking on an academic career. He was one of the first historians to collaborate with geneticists on matters of group...See more

Tudor Parfitt is Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University and Emeritus Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. He worked in Jerusalem for a year with VSO before studying Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford. After a year as Goodenday Fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he completed a D.Phil at Oxford before embarking on an academic career. He was one of the first historians to collaborate with geneticists on matters of group origins. He has travelled widely in Africa, India, Yemen, other Middle Eastern countries, and Papua New Guinea. In all, he has authored or edited thirty books, and presented seven documentaries for the BBC, PBS, Channel Four and the History Channel. He has four children. See less