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Asif Majid
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights
University of Connecticut
Education/Degree:
1 Anthropology, Media, and Performance Anthropology, Media, and Performance Anthropology, Media, and Performance Anthropology, Media, and Performance (The University of Manchester)
About
Dr. Asif Majid writes fiction, (academic) non-fiction, and plays. He is a theatre maker, educator, researcher, and consultant whose work scripts, stages, and traces local and global nodes of history, power, performance, race, and (de)coloniality, particularly through devising community-based participatory theatre and attending to the intersection of Islam and performance. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, where he is also Affiliate Faculty in Anthropology; Asian and Asian American Studies; Interdisciplinary Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; 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.
Current Work
Asif has published in multiple peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as numerous books, media outlets. His research interests include performance ethnography, the intersection of Islam and performance, community-based devising, social justice performance, the ethnography of race, and applied theatre. Asif’s 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. His forthcoming book, Making Muslimness: Race, Religion, and Performance in Contemporary Manchester, is due out with Routledge in 2025.
Research Area Keyword(s)
performance, Islam, race, community-based