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Dr. Asif Majid is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where he merges academic research with performance practice to explore racial identities, community-based theatre, and sociopolitical transformation. His work intersects performance ethnography with Islamic identity studies, focusing on marginalized communities through improvisational methods and participatory techniques.
- PhD in Anthropology, Media, and Performance from University of Manchester
- MA in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University
- BA in Interdisciplinary Studies: Global Peace Building and Conflict Management from UMBC
Dr. Majid's research engages performance ethnography to examine:
- Intersections of Islam and theatre
- Community-based devising practices
- Postcolonial identity performance
- Racial anxiety in urban spaces
- Refugee trauma narratives
- Decolonial museum practices
His recent publications examine asylum seeker narratives through cassette shop performances (2024), trauma responses in refugee theatre (2024), and power dynamics in drama workshops with British Muslim youth (2024). His work traces neoliberal influences on performance institutions (2020) and explores Egyptian revolutionary graffiti practices (2018). The 2024 publications emphasize embodied identity performance, while earlier works (2015-2020) focus on conflict transformation and participatory methodologies.
Dr. Majid previously served as:
- Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at San Francisco Arts Commission
- Lab Fellow at The Laboratory for Global Performance and Performance
