Staff in the Department of Sociology

Dr Mi Young Ahn

Mi Young is interested in sense of belonging, intersectional inequality, social capital, and mixed methods research.

Brian Alleyne BSc MSc PhD

Brian is focussed on globalisation, social movements and the social life of information technology.

Dr Sreenanti Banerjee

Vikki Bell BA PhD

Vikki's interests include transitional justice, cultural theory and questions of aesthetics, ethics and subjectivity.

Svenja Bromberg

Svenja is a theorist with expertise in social and political theory, philosophy, critical thought and Marxism

Peter Coles

Peter Coles is a fine-art photographer, translator and editor and has been a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Urban and

Dr Laura Cuch

Laura is a visual artist and cultural geographer interested in communities, food cultures and material performativity

Sara R Farris

Gender and migration, care and social reproduction, racism/nationalism, feminist theory, social theory

Fay Dennis

Fay Dennis is Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Research Fellow working on the sociology of drugs.

Monica Greco BA MA PhD

Monica Greco works at the intersections of social science and the history and philosophy of medicine.

Professor Kiran Grewal

Kiran researches the interactions between legal frameworks and social justice struggles of marginalised groups.

Michael Guggenheim

Michael works with different media to produce theoretical texts regarding civil protection and participatory politics.

David Hirsh, BSc MA PhD

David has researched and published on contemporary antisemitism, crimes against humanity and totalitarianism.

Kat Jungnickel

Kat researches invention, mobilities, gender and DIY tech communities of practice

Theo Kindynis

Theo’s current research focuses on the interrelationships between crime, urban space and social control.

Pamela Odih, BSoc.Sc PhD

Pamela studies the significance of time/space to the regulation of subjects and construction of gendered subjectivity.

David Oswell, BA (Hons), MA , PhD

David’s research is concerned with the social life of children, children’s rights and, more broadly, social theory.

Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD

Nirmal's research is in space and politics, with respect to bodies, race and gender. She has been leading the field in creative methods, especially through curating spaces.

Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor BSc, MA, PhD, PGCert

Alex's research looks at processes of social change in cities, with a focus on embodied experiences and change

Dr Katherine Robinson

Katherine's research explores issues in urban public space and everyday life in organisations.

Marsha Rosengarten BA, MA, PhD

Marsha is Co-Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP).

Christos Varvantakis

Christos is an anthropologist currently working as the research fellow for the Connectors Study (Goldsmiths/ ERC) in Athens, an international longitudinal ethnography which studies the relation between childhood and public life.

Yesim Yaprak Yildiz

Yesim’s research focuses on political violence and human rights. She is currently working on confessional forms of truth-telling in the aftermath of state-led atrocities.