People

Our team is made of up of scholars in the humanities and social sciences in both the UK and France

Principal investigator
  • Emile Chabal is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. 
Co-investigators
  • Tim Peace is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow
  • Camilla Schofield is Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at King's College London
  • Alex Hensby is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent
  • Angéline Escafré-Dublet is maitresse de conférences in political science at the Université Lumière Lyon-2
  • Rachida Brahim is Professeure Junior (assistant professor) at the Université de Strasbourg
  • Liam Liburd is Assistant Professor of Black British History at Durham University
Members of the project team at a project meeting in Cove Park in the west of Scotland in April 2025
Members of the project team at a project meeting in Cove Park in the west of Scotland in April 2025.
Postdoctoral research fellows
  • Emilie Wiedemann was a project Research Associate in 2023-4. She was based at the University of Glasgow. Emilie completed a PhD in History at Birkbeck, University of London on Jewish internationalism and the international politics of opposing antisemitism (1960-2005).
  • Jacob Bard-Rosenberg was a project Research Associate in 2024. He was based at the University of Edinburgh. Jacob completed a PhD on memory and forgetting in the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno at Birkbeck College in 2021. He is now Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh
Advisory board

We have an advisory board composed of scholars who work on related issues.

  • Rochelle Rowe is Lecturer in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh
  • Abdellali Hajjat is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Université libre de Bruxelles
  • Dan Gordon is a Faculty Associate in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford
  • Christian Jacobs is a PhD candidate at the Freie Universität, Berlin
  • Reza Zia-Ebrahimi is Reader in the History of Nationalism and Race at King's College, London
  • Ary Gordien is chargé de recherche in the Unité de recherche migrations et société (CNRS, UMR 8245)
  • Nikos Papadogiannis is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Stirling
  • Sundeep Lidher is Lecturer in Black and Asian British History (post-1800)
  • Les Back is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow
  • Satnam Virdee is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow

Find out more about our publications and work in progress