A Haziz Ginsberg is a Lecturer of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Education in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at King’s College London. They have a PhD in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Rutgers University, a Master’s in Religious Studies from Harvard and an undergraduate degree in Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies from Hunter College, C.U.N.Y (City University of New York).

A works at the intersection of queer studies, trans studies, and critical surveillance studies, Their research examines the racialised politics of quotidian security and the entanglements of race, surveillance, and empire in Britain and Northern Ireland to contextualise contemporary practices of citizen surveillance and counter-terrorism.

A is currently working on a manuscript on how we might better understand contemporary anti-trans violence and discourse in relation to practices of co-citizen surveillance forged through the counterterrorist mandate of the War on Terror.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Queer and Trans studies
• Biopolitics and Critical Security Studies
• British Empire and Surveillance
• Crisis and Theories of Emergency

Teaching

A teaches on the BA in Liberal Arts as well as the MA in Global Cultures. They have designed a queer studies module, Queering the Crisis, that is open to students across the faculty, which considers how notions of crisis function in relation to dominant systems of power.

As a researcher and teacher, A is interested in using the classroom to think about quotidian and hegemonic circuits of power, and how we might use banal objects, texts, discourses and ephemera to map and contest structural violence.

Expertise and public engagement

A’s writing on the politics of counterterrorism and anti-trafficking has been published by Novara Media and Red Pepper.

Publications

Review of “The Empire at Home,” in New Sociological Perspectives, August 2021

"Under the UK’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Shamima Begum Was Never Presumed Innocent," Novara Media, February, 24 2019 (online).

"Can You See Me?: The Problem with 'Modern Slavery' Campaigns," Red Pepper, No. 223, Spring 2019, p.43-44 (print).