About us

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Established in 2018

This initiative was first set up following the award of seed funding from the British Academy following the UK-US Early Career Collaboration Workshop on Violence which took place in Boston, USA in January 2018. 

Our Goal

Through sustained discussions across disciplines we aim to examine new and existing scholarship interested in questions pertaining to race and the modern condition. While we respect the boundaries that distinguish and maintain disciplinary expertise and knowledge, we believe that efforts to grapple complex questions in contemporary society necessitate interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies. Therefore we hope our ongoing conversations will help shape new ideas, research agendas and publications that will prove useful for others working on these questions.

For those with similar interests, the working group is always open to discuss collaborative work that may speak to our questions, and therefore welcomes enquiries concerning potential grant applications, workshops, conferences and collaborative publications that may be relevant.

Researchers

Alastair McClure
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Chicago​
​alastair@uchicago.edu

Alastair's current research is focused upon the history of criminal law and colonial violence in India and the broader Indian Ocean world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

Tarek Younis 
Newton International Fellow
​University College London​
younis.tarek@gmail.com

Tarek's current research is Funded by the Royal Society (Newton International Fellowship – March 2017- Feb 2019 ) and investigates through a community ethnography study the impact of anti­ radicalisation discourse embedded within healthcare institutions on the recipients and providers of PREVENT policy: British Muslims and NHS professionals. 

Kristen Drybread ​​
Department of Anthropology
University of Colorado, Boulder
kristen.drybread@colorado.edu

Kristen is a cultural anthropologist with an interest in global youth cultures, disciplinary institutions, gendered violence, racial formations, and capitalist desires. 

Yasmin Jiwani
Professor of Communication Studies
Concordia University
yasmin.jiwani@concordia.ca
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Yasmin's research interests focus on the intersecting influences of race and gender within the context of media representations of racialized groups and violence against women. 

Dr. Uzma Jamil
McGill University
uzma.jamil@mail.mcgill.ca​
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Uzma’s research expertise is in Critical Muslim Studies, Islamophobia, racialization and whiteness. ​