Staff in the Department of Sociology
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Staff list
Dr Mi Young Ahn
M.Ahn (@gold.ac.uk)
Mi Young is interested in sense of belonging, intersectional inequality, social capital, and mixed methods research.
Brian Alleyne BSc MSc PhD
b.alleyne (@gold.ac.uk)
Brian is focussed on globalisation, social movements and the social life of information technology.
Dr Sreenanti Banerjee
S.Banerjee (@gold.ac.uk)
Vikki Bell BA PhD
v.bell (@gold.ac.uk)
Vikki's interests include transitional justice, cultural theory and questions of aesthetics, ethics and subjectivity.
Svenja Bromberg
s.bromberg (@gold.ac.uk)
Svenja is a theorist with expertise in social and political theory, philosophy, critical thought and Marxism
Kirsten Campbell
k.campbell (@gold.ac.uk)
Social theory, socio-legal studies, gender, conflict-related sexual violence, international criminal justice
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Peter Coles
p.coles (@gold.ac.uk)
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
l.cuch (@gold.ac.uk)
Laura is a visual artist and cultural geographer interested in communities, food cultures and material performativity
Sara R Farris
s.farris (@gold.ac.uk)
Gender and migration, care and social reproduction, racism/nationalism, feminist theory, social theory
Fay Dennis
f.dennis (@gold.ac.uk)
Fay Dennis is Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Research Fellow working on the sociology of drugs.
Monica Greco BA MA PhD
m.greco (@gold.ac.uk)
Monica Greco works at the intersections of social science and the history and philosophy of medicine.
Michael Guggenheim
m.guggenheim (@gold.ac.uk)
Michael works with different media to produce theoretical texts regarding civil protection and participatory politics.
Britt Hatzius
b.hatzius (@gold.ac.uk)
Britt is a visual artist and researcher working with film, video, sound and performance, and teaches inventive methods.
David Hirsh, BSc MA PhD
d.hirsh (@gold.ac.uk)
David has researched and published on contemporary antisemitism, crimes against humanity and totalitarianism.
Kat Jungnickel
k.jungnickel (@gold.ac.uk)
Kat researches invention, mobilities, gender and DIY tech communities of practice
Pamela Odih, BSoc.Sc PhD
p.odih (@gold.ac.uk)
Pamela studies the significance of time/space to the regulation of subjects and construction of gendered subjectivity.
David Oswell, BA (Hons), MA , PhD
d.oswell (@gold.ac.uk)
David’s research is concerned with the social life of children, children’s rights and, more broadly, social theory.
Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD
n.puwar (@gold.ac.uk)
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
a.rhystaylor (@gold.ac.uk)
Alex's research looks at processes of social change in cities, with a focus on embodied experiences and change
Dr Katherine Robinson
k.robinson (@gold.ac.uk)
Katherine's research explores issues in urban public space and everyday life in organisations.
Marsha Rosengarten BA, MA, PhD
m.rosengarten (@gold.ac.uk)
Marsha is Co-Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP).
Christos Varvantakis
c.varvantakis (@gold.ac.uk)
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
y.yildiz (@gold.ac.uk)
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.