Ali Meghji

Ali Meghji is an Associate Professor in Social Inequalities at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. His research bridges critical race theory and postcolonial sociology to explore global racialization dynamics, challenging methodological nationalism in race scholarship. He co-edits the British Journal of Sociology and Sociology Compass, chairs the BSA’s Post/decolonial Transformations subgroup, and contributes to editorial boards of key journals.

• Visiting Fellow, Harvard’s Weatherhead & Hutchins Centres
• Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College

His work, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Cambridge School of HSS, examines the global dimensions of Black sociological thought through archival analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois, Franklin Frazier, Anna Julia Cooper, St Clair Drake, and Ida Wells-Barnett. He supervises graduate research in critical race theory, empire studies, and de/postcolonial sociology.

Recent articles engage with topics like colonial continuities, global racial orders, and epistemic disobedience, reflecting his focus on interdisciplinary synergies between critical race theory, decolonial thought, and global crises. His editorial work advances decolonizing methodologies in British sociology.

• Scientific Awards
  • Governing Body Fellow

Ali leads courses such as SOC12 Empire, Colonialism, Imperialism and the MPhil in Marginality and Exclusion. He contributes to debates on post-racial ideologies, cultural consumption, and racialized social systems, particularly in the contexts of Trumpamerica, Brexit Britain, and COVID-19 disparities.