Asif Majid
Head of Theatre Studies and Assistant Professor, Theatre Studies and Human Rights
Dramatic Arts
Asif Majid, PhD writes fiction, (academic) non-fiction, and plays. Using community-based participatory theatre and (auto)ethnography, he works at the intersection of Islam, performance, and race as a theatre maker, educator, researcher, and consultant. His work scripts, stages, and traces local and global nodes of power, politics, and (de)coloniality. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, where he is also Area Head of Theatre Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Anthropology; Asian and Asian American Studies; Intersectional Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Middle East Studies; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Asif maintains an active consulting practice on issues of racial justice, power sharing, arts administration, and organizational capacity and structure, all through an applied theatre and social justice lens.
Asif has earned over $500,000 in grant and fellowship funding from entities as diverse as the American Council of Learned Societies, Asian Cultural Council, Fulbright Program, Open Society Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Wallace Foundation, and more. His US performance credits include work with the Kennedy Center, Convergence Theatre, and Theatre Prometheus, and his UK performance credits include the Royal Exchange Theatre, Action Transport Theatre, and Unity Theatre. Asif earned his PhD in Anthropology, Media, and Performance from The University of Manchester in 2019, an MA with Distinction in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University in 2015, and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Global Peace Building and Conflict Management) from UMBC in 2013. His latest book, Making Muslimness: Race, Religion, and Performance in Contemporary Manchester, is available from Routledge. He is online at www.asifmajid.com.
| asif.majid@uconn.edu | |
| Phone | 860-486-4798 |