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Vanja Hamzić is a Research Professor in Law, History, and Anthropology at SOAS University of London, serving as Equalities Lead and Director of Research within the School of Law, Gender and Media. He holds a First Class Honours degree from the University of Sarajevo, an LLM with Distinction from the University of Nottingham, and a PhD from King’s College London. His research focuses on human subjectivity formation, particularly through the lens of gender, sexual, class, race, linguistic, and religious differences, with fieldwork in Pakistan, Indonesia, Senegal, and Louisiana.
Dr. Hamzić’s work interrogates the intersections of Islamic legal traditions with global legal and social theories, including racial capitalism, Marxism, decolonial studies, and queer legal frameworks. His current book project explores gender nonconformity and legal pluralism in 18th-century Senegambia and the survival of enslaved West Africans’ gender practices during the Middle Passage. He co-directs the Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law and has held roles at Harvard’s Institute for Global Law and Policy and the Inner Temple.
His research emphasizes marginalized communities’ vernacular knowledge, challenging colonial archives and legal systems. He advises PhD students on topics ranging from queer politics in India to postcolonial legal narratives. His work bridges critical legal theory, anthropology, and philosophy, with contributions to debates on alegality, distemporality, and Third World feminisms.
- Qualifications: BFA (Sarajevo), BDes (Sarajevo), LLM (Nottingham), PhD (London), SFHEA
- Institutional Roles: Co-Director of Colonialism Studies Centre, Member of Academic Senate
- External Affiliations: Harvard’s Institute for Global Law and Policy, Inner Temple Fellow
His publications span authored books, edited volumes, and over 50 articles addressing legal violence, decolonial methodologies, and the archival silences of gender-variant histories. He actively participates in institutional decolonization initiatives at SOAS.
