Claire Crawford
Postdoctoral Researcher

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Biography

Claire is an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow through the White Rose DTP. Her project is titled “Digital governance of social movements in contemporary India” and is mentored by Professor Sara de Jong.

Claire joined York in 2022 as an Associate Lecturer, teaching on postcolonial, gender and international politics. She co-convened the MA in Contemporary History and International Politics. She was previously a doctoral candidate with the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, where her PhD “Social movement politics: postcolonialism, feminism and the digital in India” was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and supervised by Professor Humeira Iqtidar, Dr Poornima Paidipaty and Dr Paolo Gerbaudo.

Following an early career as a project manager, Claire completed her MA in Contemporary India at the King’s India Institute. She also holds a BA in History & Italian from the University of Leeds. She has held consultancy positions at the British International Research Institutes and the Council for British Research in the Levant, and worked as a Research Associate on a number of projects. She is a member of the London-based Politics of Style Collective and a Visiting Fellow at the King’s College London Global South Research Group.

For more information see Claire’s personal website or get in touch by email or on Twitter.