Race, Resistance and Belonging at the University of Oxford: who we are

Who we are

Aleena Din

Alex Aylward

Alex Aylward is a Departmental Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Oxford.

Andrew Whitehead

Andrew Whitehead is a historian, lecturer and freelance journalist

Antoinette Burton

Antoinette M. Burton is an American historian, and Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Anu Henriques

Anu is the founder and co-director of Skin Deep, a collective that makes space for Black creatives and creatives of colour to work towards justice through cultural production.

Barbara Savage

Barbara D. Savage is an historian and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought in the Department of Africana Studies of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bongani Ngqulunga

Bongani Ngqulunga is the director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) at the University of Johannesburg.

Bright Gyamfi

Daisy Hung

Daisy Hung is the divisional lead for equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and is responsible for developing divisional strategy in this area in relation to staff and students

Dan Hicks

Dan Hicks is a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Danny Dorling

Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford

David Mills

David Mills is Associate Professor (Pedagogy and the Social Sciences) at the Department of Education at Oxford.

Dexnell Peters

Dexnell Peters is Lecturer in Caribbean and Atlantic History at the University of the West Indies, Mona

Dorothée Boulanger

Dorothée Boulanger is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford

Emma Gattey

Emma Gattey is a PhD Candidate in World History at the University of Cambridge. PhD research focuses on the intersectional anticolonial protest and revisionist history of Māori women activist-intellectuals in the late 20th century.

Euton Daley

Euton Daley MBE is an artist, director, mentor and producer. His work centres young people and community engagement in the arts. He is the founder of the Unlock the Chains collective, which produces theatre projects that explore the Black experience.

Faridah Zaman

Faridah Zaman is Associate Professor of the History of Britain and the World, and Fellow and Tutor of Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford.

Fiona McConnell

Fiona McConnell is an Associate Professor and Fellow in Geography at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

Gus John

Gus John is an activist, educationalist, writer and academic who has worked on education, youth work, social justice and human rights.

Hazim Hardeman

Hazim Hardeman is a PhD student in American Studies and Senior Fellowships tutor at Harvard University. In 2018, he became a Rhodes Scholar and undertook an MPhil in US History.

JC Niala

JC is an anthropology doctoral researcher at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford.

Johanna Waters

Johanna Waters is Professor of Human Geography at UCL.

John Eade

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris is currently working with Ruth Craggs on a Leverhulme Trust Research Project on diplomatic training, following various posts at Stranmillis University College and Cambridge University.

Junie James

Junie James is a founder member, and currently, Director of ACKHI.

Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo is a South African social and climate justice activist. His most recent role was as Founding Chair of Africans Rising, a Pan-African movement of people and organizations working for peace, justice, and dignity. Before this, he was International Executive Director of Greenpeace and Secretary General of Amnesty International.

Leyla Okhai

Leyla Okhai is the founder of Diverse Minds, a consultancy that enables organisations to create a postively productive workplace for all.

Mishka Sinha

Mishka Sinha is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. A part of the Research and Engagement Working Group, she is analysing the university's links with colonialism. Previously, she was a Research Associate at St. John's College and co-director of the project, 'St. John's and the Colonial Past'.

Michael Joseph

Michael Joseph is a historian of the modern Caribbean, Britain, and France. His current book project is a comparative study of anti-colonial political thought in five islands – Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, Martinique, and Guadeloupe – from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Olana Peters

Olana Peters is an Examinations Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, and is undertaking a DPhil in History. Her research focuses on empire, protest and decolonisation.

Patricia Daley

Patricia Daley is Professor of the Human Geography of Africa. She is also the Helen Morag Fellow in Geography at Jesus College, Oxford, where she served as Vice-Principal from 2018 to 2021.

Priya Atwal

Priya Atwal is Community History Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her specialist research interests lie in the cultural politics of empire, particularly across Britain and South Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Roger Nascimento

Roger Nascimento is a Teaching Associate for the MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Health, University of Oxford.

Roseanne Chantiluke

Roseanne Chantiluke is Executive Director at the Centre for Tutorial Teaching, an educational training, research and consultancy service based in Oxford. In 2018, soon after finishing a postgraduate degree at the University of Oxford, Roseanne co-edited the book ‘Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire

Ross Brooks

Ross Brooks is a historian and Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

Ruth Craggs

Ruth Craggs is a senior lecturer in human geography at King’s College London. Ruth was awarded the Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for new research into diplomatic training as postcolonial state-building in Anglophone and Francophone Africa.

Sage Goodwin

Simphiwe L Stewart

Simphiwe Stewart is a DPhil graduate in Human Geography at the University of Oxford.

Stephen Tuck

Stephen Tuck is a Professor of Modern History at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. His research interests include modern race equality struggles in Britain and America, the writing of national history, and the relationship between religion and racism.

Tadiwa F Madenga

Tadiwa F Madenga is a PhD candidate in African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University. Simphiwe Stewart is a DPhil graduate in Human Geography at the University of Oxford.

Temitope Ajileye

Temitope Ajileye is a doctoral student in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

Victor Yang

Victor Yang is the artist-in-residence for the city of Boston. He earned an MFA in fiction from Boston University, and he has a PhD in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied movements for racial equity.

Yasmin Khan

Yasmin Khan is a British historian and writer, and University Lecturer in British History based in the Department for Continuing Education and a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford.

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