Asif Majid

Asif Majid is a scholar-artist-educator working at the intersection of racialized sociopolitical identities, multimedia, marginality, and new performance, particularly through devising community-based participatory theatre. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut.

Asif has published in multiple peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as numerous books and media outlets. His performance credits include work with the Kennedy Center, Convergence Theatre, and Theatre Prometheus in the US; and with the Royal Exchange Theatre Action Transport Theatre, and Unity Theatre in the UK. He has been a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow with the San Francisco Arts Commission and a Lab Fellow with The Laboratory for Global Performance and Performance. He earned his PhD (Anthropology, Media, and Performance) from The University of Manchester, MA (Conflict Resolution) from Georgetown University, and BA (Interdisciplinary Studies: Global Peace Building and Conflict Management) from UMBC. Asif can be found online at www.asifmajid.com.