Dr Kenny Monrose is a researcher at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Sociology and is a Postgraduate tutor and Fellow of Wolfson College. He was the Principal investigator and lead investigator on hugely impactful on the Black British Voices Project which was published in 2023.
Kenny has many years’ experience in teaching, supervising and examining undergraduate and post-graduate students in the areas of Sociology, Behavioural Sciences and Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is also the founder and Chair of the REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage research hub at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
As Principal Investigator for the Black British Voices Collections in collaboration with Cambridge University libraries, Kenny is delivering a public programme which will explore how the findings from the Black British Voices survey have been articulated, historically. This is through the printed material, oral history interviews, art, and archival material held at Cambridge University Library and other collections in Cambridge.
He completed a PhD in Sociology in 2013. His doctoral thesis was a qualitative study centred in East London, examining the life course of maturing black men, with a focus on criminal preclusion and non-criminal participation. The study made an original contribution to knowledge by highlighting the scholarly omission of black adult male populations within academic deliberation on 'race' and crime.
Kenny is the author of Black Men in Britain: an ethnographic portrait of the post Windrush generation. This book engages with an invisible population of Black men who grew up during 1970s and 80s post-industrial Britain, and as part of an environment that rendered them irrelevant and indistinguishable. The work highlights the continued confinements of prejudice, discrimination, and everyday racisms in the lives of black men, whilst rigorously engaging with several related areas such as familial configuration, identities, and class position.
He is an affiliate at The Centre for Screen & Film within the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, and a member of Centre for the study of Global Human Movement at the University of Cambridge.
