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Dr Saffron East

Lecturer in Global Cultures Education

Research interests

  • Culture
  • Education
  • History

Pronouns

she/her

Biography

I am a historian of education, identities and social movements. Before King’s, I was a Research Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. I did my AHRC-funded PhD on Antiracism in Southall at University College London. I have taught on Black and Asian Britain, race and ethnicity at the University of Cambridge and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Research interests and PhD supervision

  • Modern and contemporary Britain (C20th and 21st)
  • Intersections of race and class and gender
  • Radical pedagogies and political education

Selected publications

  • ''The "post-decolonial" moment? Radical pedagogies in UK Higher Education in historical perspective', Education, antiracism and decoloniality: Tensions, resistances, and possibilities, special issue of Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 70 (2025)
  • 'South Asian political Blackness in Britain: Lessons and limitations of anti-racist solidarity' in Saffron East, Grace Redhead and Theo Williams (eds.), Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present (MUP, 2024)