Race and racism
Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper
Adam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His first monograph, Black Resistance to British Policing, was published by Manchester University Press in May 2021. He is also co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto Press, 2021).
Adam's research interests include racial capitalism, state racism, postcolonialism, policing, anti-racism, black feminism and social movements. His research has focused on anti-racism and British policing, both on the British mainland and in Britain's colonies.
Dr Nivi Manchanda
Nivi is a Reader in International Politics. Her book, Imagining Afghanistan: the History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge, examines the ways in which Afghanistan has been represented and repeatedly intervened in from the nineteenth century until 2001.
Her research interests include the histories of colonial intervention in South Asia and the Middle East and the role of capitalism in perpetuating racial hierarchies globally, the ways in which knowledge is produced, and the raced, classed and gendered nature of both ‘expertise’ and ‘common-sense’.
Dr Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in US Politics and Policy and author of The End of the Second Reconstruction. Richard's research focuses on race and democracy in the United States.
He has expertise on elections, partisanship, voting behaviour, judicial power, policymaking, federalism, civil rights, and political violence. His recent work has focused on ethnic minority voting patterns and the Republican party; ‘political sectarianism’ and US partisanship; a comparative analysis of ‘busing’ in the US, UK, and France; and British and American abortion politics.
Richard also has expertise in UK politics, especially Labour Party history, Britain and the European Union, and the British constitution.
Dr Sharri Plonski
Sharri is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics. She is a product of multiple transgenerational colonialities that link the practices of conquest, empire, settlement and migration in Eastern Europe, Palestine, Canada and the UK.
Her work, which is concerned with settler colonial relations, anti-colonial struggles, border dynamics and material infrastructures, is primarily anchored in the case of Palestine/Israel and its regional and global relations. She is currently working on a project that investigates the colonial and capitalist entanglements of Israel’s trade and transit infrastructures and the materials that undergird Israel’s ‘normalisation’ project.
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- Email: s.plonski@qmul.ac.uk
Dr James Eastwood
James is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and author of Ethics as a Weapon of War: Militarism and Morality in Israel. His research has explored the connections between practices of ethics, war, and militarism in global politics, with a particular focus on the case of Israel.
James’s research has concentrated on Israeli politics and society, previously with a focus on ethics and militarism, and more recently with a focus on the removal of Middle Eastern Jewish children from their families in the early years of the State.
Dr Clive Gabay
Clive is a Reader in International Politics. Beginning from an analysis of power and hegemony, his previous research has examined social movements, state-society relations, racial formations, utopianism, and Zionism/anti-Zionism.
Clive's current work focuses on two areas: race, racism and whiteness; and Jewishness, settler colonialism and Arab Jews. Clive is currently working on a book project which picks up the thread of articulating counter-hegemonic political positions via an extrapolation out of his family archive of Arab Jews.
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- Email: c.gabay@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Maia Holtermann Entwistle
Maia is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her Leverhulme-funded historical project investigates race and racism in the trans-oceanic circuits of the Arabian Peninsula’s pearl and early oil industries.
With Dr Sharri Plonski she is co-creator and executive producer of the podcast series ‘Surviving Society Presents: Material Crimes’. A collaboration with the radical sociology podcast Surviving Society, ‘Material Crimes’ tells stories of infrastructure, colonialism, racism and resistance for non-academic audiences.
Dr Jaakko Heiskanen
Jaakko is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His main research interests lie at the intersection of international relations theory, nationalism studies, and conceptual history.
He is author of Ethnos of the Earth, which charts the conceptual history of ethnicity in the twentieth century. It shows how the invention and popularisation of ethnicity as a new category for organising human diversity helped to mask the enduring role of racial and civilisational hierarchies in international politics.
Dr Katharine Hall
Katharine is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. Her research focuses on questions related to modern war and security, military and surveillance technologies, and the longer historical and racialized geographies of militarization and practices of state violence.
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- Email: k.hall@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Shreyaa Bhatt
Shreyaa is a Senior Lecturer in Politics. Her research interests include ancient and modern political thought, rhetoric and techniques of persuasion, and Critical Philosophy of Race. She also has interests related to pedagogy – in particular the meanings and discourses of ‘student engagement’, the production of norms relating to student ability, and Deficit Thinking.
Farah Hussain
Farah is a PhD student in the Department of Politics and International Relations and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Mile End Institute.
Her research explores the relationship between the Labour Party and the Muslim electorate in the UK, the experience of Muslim women in the Labour Party and the nature of party membership. Farah previously worked in Parliament, regional government and served as a local councillor in the London Borough of Redbridge.