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Sociology Research

 

Ali Meghji is an Associate Professor in Social Inequalities. His research puts critical race theory into dialogue with postcolonial sociology in order to understand the global dynamics of racialization and racism. In doing so, his work overcomes the methodological nationalism which characterises much contemporary race scholarship, and develops a way forward for thinking about global raciality.

Ali has held visiting fellowship at Harvard’s Weatherhead Centre, and Hutchins Centre, as well as a research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College. He is the director for undergraduate education, the convenor of the MPhil in marginality and exclusion, the course organiser for SOC12 Empire, colonialism, imperialism, and the former chair of 'Decolonising sociology'. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Sociology and Sociology Compass, sits on the editorial board of Cultural Sociology, and is the co-founder and co-convenor of the Post/decolonial transformations subgroup of the British Sociological Association.

His current research involves archival work on the Du Boisian sociological tradition. Funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and by the Cambridge School of Humanities and Social Sciences, his research analyzes the unpublished writings of five classical Black sociologists who he contends can be read as Du Boisians: W.E.B Du Bois, Franklin Frazier, Anna Julia Cooper, St Clair Drake, and Ida Wells-Barnett. This project will be published as a monograph with Princeton University Press. Parallel to this, he is working on a project investigating the de-Americanization of the Pan-African movement.

Given his research interests, Ali is available to supervise graduate students in critical race theory; empire and imperialism; de/postcolonial sociology; and global historical sociology.

Job Title:
Associate Professor in Social Inequalities, Sidney Sussex College