Country of residence

United States

Brief introduction

Affiliated Scholar, Center for Justice and Security

Education

MA, Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2011, California Institute of Integral Studies

Academic profile

Erin McElroy is a cultural anthropologist engaged in emancipatory scholarship and advocacy-based research, affiliated as an independent scholar though the Center for Justice and Security, based out of San Francisco. McElroy’s work focuses upon genealogical excavations of formations of state racisms and violences in European peripheral spaces, particularly as it targets Roma communities in Romania and in the diapsora. Through critical frameworks and commitments towards justice, McElroy’s scholarship draws upon poststructural, postcolonial, feminist, and Marxist critique, and employs participatory research methodologies that seek to take positions of advocacy. McElroy has a M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis on Gender, Ecology, and Society from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and B.A. in Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies from Hampshire College as well as in Studio Art from New York University.

Publications

• “Beyond the Pale – Racisms of States, Blood and Soil” (MA Thesis)
• “State Racism, Nationalism, Securitization – Anti-Roma Violence in Postnational Europe” (EASA 2012 Conference Paper)
• “In the North of Ireland: Architectures of Subjugation” (Narrating the Margins – Scholarship of Justice Conference, CIIS)

Keywords

Xenophobia, Northern Ireland, Romania, Roma

Contact

erinmcel@gmail.com browse members list