Dr Aidan McGarry is a Reader in International Politics at the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University, London. His research focuses on social movements, protest, political voice, and marginalised communities. He is the author of five books including Who Speaks for Roma? (Continuum: London); The Identity Dilemma: Social Movements and Collective Identity (edited with James Jasper: Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2015); and Romaphobia: The Last Acceptable Racism in Europe (Zed: London, 2017). He is currently co-editing a book The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). His research has been
published in leading international journals including Ethnopolitics, Social Movement Studies, Ethnic and Migration Studies, Critical Social Policy and Ethnicities. He was Principal Investigator of an AHRC funded international project 'The Aesthetics of Protest: Visual Culture and Communication in Turkey’(www.aestheticsofprotest.com) which ran from 2016-2018. Aidan was previously a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York in 2013 and at COSMOS, Florence in November 2017. He is currently (2018-2019) a EURIAS/Marie Curie Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam, where is writing a book on political voice.

Research interests: marginalized groups, protest, ROMA, political violence, and aesthetics