Christopher Kyriakides

Christopher Kyriakides was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. His PhD, "The Anti-Racist State" (examined by John Solomos) was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and was carried out under the auspices of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Department of Politics, University of Glasgow. His ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship investigated the relationship between racism, nationalism and Muslim inclusion/exclusion in Scotland and England and was carried out with the Centre for Research into Racism, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Glasgow and with the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol. He is currently Director of Ethnicity and Communications Research (ETHCOM), Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology and is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine. Kyriakides is interested in the application of ethnographic research methodologies (including institutional, political, communication, digital and urban ethnography) to the study of the relationship between geo-politics, public policy and the neighbourhood negotiation of racism, racialisation, ethnicity and religious conflict. His work stresses the importance of a close relationship between the development of theory, interdisciplinarity and comparative analysis which has reached across American, European and Middle Eastern geo-empirical terrains. He has published widely on ethnicity-related issues, including papers in each of the consistently ranked top-three peer-reviewed journals in his substantive field of inquiry – the journals of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Ethnicity and Health. Recent papers in New Political Science, his award-nominated Stanford University Press book Race Defaced: Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility, and his forthcoming Oxford University Press book Multicultural Apocalypse: Anti-Immigration at ‘History’s End’, consolidate empirical and theoretical work to-date.