Staff in the Department of Sociology

Fauzia Ahmad BSc, MSc, PhD

Fauzia is a qualitative feminist researcher with research interests in gendered ethnic and faith identities.

Brian Alleyne BSc MSc PhD

Brian is focussed on globalisation, social movements and the social life of information technology.

Les Back BSc PhD

Les specialises in the sociology of racism and ethnicity, popular culture and music, and urban life and community.

Vikki Bell BA PhD

Vikki's interests include transitional justice, cultural theory and questions of aesthetics, ethics and subjectivity.

Natassia Brenman

Natassia uses ethnographic methods to explore the technologies, temporalities, and spaces of mental health and care.

Svenja Bromberg

Svenja is a theorist with expertise in social and political theory, philosophy, critical thought and Marxism

Kirsten Campbell

With a theoretical focus upon gender and law, Kirsten explores international criminal law and transitional justice.

Rebecca Coleman

Rebecca works across sociology, cultural studies and feminist theory on temporality, media, bodies and inventive methods

Abby Day

Abby works on researching, teaching and representing sociology of religion nationally and internationally.

Sara R Farris

Sara has explored the orientalist underpinnings of sociological theory as well as feminism, racism and nationalism.

Fay Dennis

Fay Dennis is a Wellcome Research Fellow in Social Science and Bioethics in the Department of Sociology (mentored by Professor Marsha Rosengarten and Dr Rebecca Coleman).

Jennifer Fleetwood

Jennifer is a criminologist and sociologist whose research and writing centres on women, gender, and crime/law-breaking.

Monica Greco BA MA PhD

Monica Greco works at the intersections of social science, history, and philosophy of medicine and psychiatry.

Kiran Grewal

Kiran researches the interactions between legal frameworks and social justice struggles of marginalised groups.

Michael Guggenheim

Michael works with different media to produce theoretical texts regarding civil protection and participatory politics.

Paul Halliday

Paul’s focus is on urban and fine-art photography, documentary and film, urban ethnography, and narratives of city life.

David Hirsh, BSc MA PhD

David has researched and published on contemporary antisemitism, crimes against humanity and totalitarianism.

Emma Jackson

An urban sociologist and ethnographer, Emma explores the relationship between belonging, place and urban change.

Kat Jungnickel

Kat researches invention, mobilities, gender and DIY tech communities of practice

Faten Khazaei

Faten works at the intersection of gender studies, critical race studies, sociology of migration and institutions.

Theo Kindynis

Theo’s current research focuses on the interrelationships between crime, urban space and social control.

Caroline Knowles BSc PhD

Caroline writes about migration and circulations of material objects and the social forces constituting globalisation in cities.

Dr Vik Loveday

Currently researching higher education, Vik has also worked on gender, identity, luck, nostalgia and social class.

Jamie Matthews

Jamie is a political sociologist whose research explores contemporary social movements and forms of popular protest.

Dr Katja May

Katja’s research interests are in feminist theory, affect, protest cultures and the phenomenology of making.

Monk

Monk is a black Labrador. He has accompanied Mariam Motamedi-Fraser to Goldsmiths since September 2015, when he was seven months old.

Mariam Motamedi-Fraser BA (Hons), PhD

Mariam's research is on animals, with a special interest in the animal sciences, and dogs.

Kate Nash BSc PhD

Kate works on cultural politics - how does meaning-making establish and challenge (more or less unequal, violent) social orders.

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas

Melissa’s research focuses on childhood, youth and family lives with a specific interest in the intersection of childhood, publics, and politics.

Pamela Odih, BSoc.Sc PhD

Pamela studies the significance of time/space to the regulation of subjects and construction of gendered subjectivity.

David Oswell, BA (Hons), MA , PhD

David’s research is concerned with the social life of children, children’s rights and, more broadly, social theory.

Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD

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

Alex is an urban sociologist, focussed on the relationship between multi-sensory experiences of cities and histories of change.

Dr Katherine Robinson

Katherine's research explores issues in urban public space and everyday life in organisations.

Marsha Rosengarten BA, MA, PhD

Marsha is Co-Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP).

Dr Monica Sassatelli

Monica works in the fields of cultural identity, European cultural policies and cultural politics in city settings.

Martin Savransky

Martin works across philosophy and the social sciences, researching ecology, postcolonial thought, and radical pluralism

Brett St Louis BA MSc PhD

Brett's interests crystallise into three areas: race and ethnicity, post-colonial intellectualism and racism in sport.

Maisie Tomlinson

Alberto Toscano BA MA PhD

Alberto’s expertise is in social and political theory, philosophy, Marxism and critical theory.

Christos Varvantakis

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.

Nina Wakeford

Nina’s focus is on art and visual sociology, including methodologies and practice based research. 

Yesim Yaprak Yildiz

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.