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Dr. Gareth Robert Millington is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, where he leads multiple significant research projects including a five-year Leverhulme Trust-funded initiative titled 'Archiving the Inner City: Race and the Politics of Urban Memory' and British Academy/GCRF projects focused on urban infrastructure in Lagos and religious urbanization in Africa.
Millington received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex in 2006, with ESRC-funded doctoral research on hostility toward asylum seekers. His academic journey includes studies at University of Salford and Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to joining York in 2012, he taught at University of Roehampton and University of Essex, and worked as a schoolteacher in Essex and London.
His research spans urban sociology, race studies, and visual representations of cities, with fieldwork conducted across London, Paris, Philadelphia, Lagos, and Kinshasa. Millington examines how urban infrastructures are provided by religious organizations, the politics of urban memory, and cinematic depictions of urban life. His work combines theoretical frameworks with empirical studies of urban dynamics across diverse cultural contexts.
Millington has authored two monographs: 'Race, Culture and the Right to the City: Centres, Peripheries, Margins' (2011) and 'Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema: Spectres of the City' (2016). He co-authored 'Urban Criminology: The City, Disorder, Harm and Social Control' (2019) and is currently working on 'Decline and the Sublime in Modern Urban Culture' with Daryl Martin.
- Leverhulme Trust five-year project on urban memory
- British Academy/GCRF projects on Lagos infrastructure and religious urbanization
- Member of Centre for Urban Research (CURB)
- Co-convenes 'Archiving the City' in Centre for Modern Studies
Millington teaches a third-year module 'Cinema, Cities and Historical Sociology' that bridges his research interests with pedagogy, and actively supervises PhD students in urban sociology, race studies, and related fields.
