Dr. Farhan Samanani, 2018-2022
Curriculum Vitae
Farhan is now at King's College London.
Farhan Samanani completed his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the
University of Cambridge in 2017, having been a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
There, his Ph.D. focused on how residents of the superdiverse London
neighbourhood of Kilburn understood and attempted to shape forms of
community. After his doctorate he worked as a Post-doctoral Research
Associate in Urban Studies at the University of Oxford on a project
examining the impacts of austerity on first-time parents. From 2018 to
2022, he worked as a research associate at MPI-MMG. He has
co-edited two collections, on care and hospitality in the city, and on
ethnographies of home, published as a special issue of City and Society,
and as an edited volume with Bloomsbury Academic, respectively. His
other publications and projects also cover migration policy, everyday
ethics in contemporary London, and race, identity, and belonging in the
UK. In addition to his academic work, Farhan is committed to applying
academic insights, working in collaboration with organizations and
policy-makers, and has done work on diversity, migration, and belonging
for a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the Runnymede
Trust, and Share Action.