Professor Paul Gilroy FRSL FKC FBA
Professor Paul Gilroy is to be awarded a Doctor of Letters (DLitt) on Tuesday 3 December 2024 during the afternoon ceremony.
Paul Gilroy was born in the East End of London in 1956. He is currently Professor of Humanities at University College London where he was founding director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the study of racism and racialisation.
Paul was previously Professor of American and English at King’s College London, Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2005 to 2012), Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Yale (1999 to 2005), and Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Goldsmiths College London (1995 to 1999).
He holds honorary doctorates from Goldsmiths College, Sussex University, the University of Liege, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Oxford, and is an honorary Fellow of Sussex University and King’s College, London.
In 2014, Paul was made a Fellow of the British Academy and, in 2018, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded Norway’s Holberg Prize in 2019.
He writes widely on art, music, literature and politics and his publications include Darker than Blue: On The Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Cultures (2010), Black Britain: A Pictorial History (2007), and After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? (2005).