Dr Kelsey Weber-Lawson (she/her)
Department of Sociological Studies
Research Associate to Professor Sarah Neal
Full contact details
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
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S10 2AH
- Profile
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Kelsey joined the Department of Sociological Studies in 2024, having previously worked as a visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton in the anthropology department (2023-2024).
Kelsey is broadly interested in the concept of belonging and how individuals come to affectively feel part of a given community, religious minority experiences in Central and Eastern Europe, and modern shifts in understanding identity at the nexus of religious, ethnic, and national positionalities.
- Research interests
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Kelsey has written about belonging among Polish Tatar Muslims, exploring the body as the affective scaffolding upon which belonging is built, (re)produced, and experienced. She is broadly interested in the lived experience of religious minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, and how belonging is differentially understood within societies that have strong ties between religious and national narratives of identity.
Kelsey is currently a research associate on a project investigating understandings of rural belonging and the "good countryside," exploring the mutually constituting entanglements between and among migrants and residents of localities in England, Scotland, and Wales post-Brexit.
- Research group
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BASEES (British Association of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies)
EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists)