Aidan McGarry

Prof. Aidan McGarry’s research focuses on political representation, protest and visual culture.

He has taught courses on nationalism, international relations theory and social movements. He has written five books: Who Speaks for Roma? (Continuum 2010); The Politics and Discourses of Migration in Europe (co-editor, Palgrave 2013); The Identity Dilemma: Social Movements and Collective Identity (co-editor with James Jasper, Temple University Press 2015); Romaphobia: The Last Acceptable Racism (Zed 2017), and The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication (Amsterdam University Press).

Aidan completed all his formal higher education at Queen’s University, Belfast with a BA (Hons) in European Area Studies, an MA in European and Global Governance and a PhD in Politics and International Studies. In 2014, he was given a ‘Rising Star’ award. Aidan has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence and the European Centre for Minority Issues in Germany. Aidan was awarded a EURIAS Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam where work in 2018-2019. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2022/23 and conducted research at University of Southern California in LA.

Aidan was Principal Investigator of an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) funded project ‘Aesthetics of Protest: Visual Culture and Communication in Turkey’ from 2016-2018 working with colleagues at Glasgow Caledonia University, University of Brighton and Bilgi University, Istanbul.