Ronit Lentin

(Head of Department)

Ronit Lentin is Head of Sociology and course coordinator of the Mphil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict. She was coordinator of the Global Networks project in the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), and member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative research programme, where she focused on migrant-led activism. Her research and teaching interests include race critical theory, Israel-Palestine, migrant activism, racism in Ireland, gender and genocide. She has supervised PhDs on Bosnian refugees, Turkish religious networks, Israel-critical social movements, second generation Palestinian Nakba memorialisation, Protestant churches and migrants in Ireland and Italy, and Middle class racism. Recently completed PhDs: Pentecostal Africans in 21st Century Ireland, Ireland and Race: Ideas, Intellectuals and Identities, Italian women migrants, and Negotiating eating disorder(s). Her latest books are After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (with Robbie McVeigh, 2006), Race and State (with Alana Lentin, 2006/8), Performing Global Networks (with Karen Fricker, 2007), Thinking Palestine (2008) and Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Comemorising the Palestinian Nakba (2010). She is currently completing an edited collection, Integration from Below: Migrant Activism in the Republic of Ireland.

Contact: email: rlentin@tcd.ie , tel: 353 1 8962702

Clinic Hours: Wednesday 3pm-4pm,Room 3.03,3 College Green

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