Sami Everett

Dr. Sami Everett is a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, specializing in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Jewish-Muslim relations, North African heritage, and postcolonial studies. Their work explores urban cultural interactions, memory practices, and transnational community dynamics through ethnographic and archival approaches.

Research interests include:

• Material culture of intercommunal heritage
• Generational transmission in diaspora communities
• Postcolonial identity reconfiguration
• Football as cultural diplomacy
• Difficult heritage in European borderlands

Current projects examine:

• Comparative approaches to diversity challenges
• Waterway countercultures
• Heritage practices in contested spaces

Dr. Everett supervises PhD students in Fine Art and contributes to academic discourse through publications in journals like Patterns of Prejudice and Material Religion.