Staff profile

Overview

Throughout my work I have explored issues in the study of minority identities, specifically in relation to constructions of difference in public discourses about race and religion and in the context of science and biotechnology. My past two major projects focused on the context of South Asia and resulted in the publication of The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India (with Shahid Perwez, OUP, 2013) and Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race (OUP, 2018). 

My current research explores the notion of inter-community solidarity, focusing on initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK. I am Co-Investigator on an international Open Research Area-funded project Muslim-Jewish Encounter, Diversity and Distance in Urban Europe: Religion, Culture and Social Model. 

I am the Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics. 

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD research on the following topics:

• Religion and race
• Anthropology of Jewish communities
• Inter-faith and inter-community dialogue
• Anthropology of science and biotechnology

• Anthropology of religion
• Anthropology of science
• Interfaith dialogue
• Religion and race
• Minorities and the state

• Contextualising Conflict
• Social Anthropology

• Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics

Authored book

• Egorova, Yulia (2018). Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Egorova, Y. & Perwez, S. (2013). The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chapter in book

• Egorova, Yulia (2022). Science, Sovereignty, and Diaspora: Alternative Genealogies and DNA Research on Jewish Populations. In Jews and Science. Gilman, Sander Purdue University Press. 20.
• Egorova, Yulia (2022). ‘This is just where we are in history’ Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity. In Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience. Gidley, Ben & Everett, Samuel Sami Leiden: Brill. 13: 231-249.
• Egorova, Y. & Ahmed, F. (2017). The Impact of Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: Memory, Experience, Context. In Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story?. Renton, J. & Gidley, B. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 283-301.
• Egorova, Yulia (2014). Terrorists in the village? Negotiating Jewish-Muslim relations in South Asia. In Jews, Christians, Muslims: Collaboration and Conflict in the Age of Diaspora. Gilman, Sander L. Hong Kong University Press. 115-131.
• Egorova, Yulia (2014). Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative. In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures. Valman, N. & Roth, L. Routledge. 353-364.
• Egorova, Y. (2011). DNA, Authentizitat und historisches Gedachtnis. In Biohistorische Anthropologie: Knochen, Korper und DNA in Erinnerungskulturen. Sommer, M. & Kruger, G. Kadmos. 33-54.

Journal Article

• Egorova, Yulia (2024). Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
• Egorova, Yulia (2023). Common Difference: Conceptualising Simultaneity and Racial Sincerity in Jewish-Muslim Relations in the United Kingdom. Anthropological Theory
• Egorova, Yulia (2018). DNA, reconciliation and social empowerment. The British Journal of Sociology 69(3): 545-551.
• Egorova, Yulia (2015). Redefining the Converted Jewish Self: Race, Religion and Israel's Bene Menashe. American Anthropologist 117(3): 493-505.
• Egorova, Yulia (2013). The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia. Contemporary South Asia 21(3): 291-303.
• Egorova, Y. & Perwez, S. (2012). Old memories, new histories: (re)discovering the past of Jewish Dalits. History and Anthropology 23(1): 1-15.
• Egorova, Y. & Perwez, S. (2010). The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh. Anthropology Today 26(6): 14-19.
• Egorova, Y. (2010). Castes of genes? Representing human genetic diversity in India. Genomics, Society and Policy 6(3): 32-49.
• Egorova, Y. (2010). DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates. BioSocieties 5(3): 348-365.
• Egorova, Y. (2010). From Dalits to Bene Ephraim: Judaism in Andhra Pradesh. Religions of South Asia 4(1): 105-124.
• Egorova, Y. (2009). De/geneticizing caste: population genetic research in South Asia. Science as Culture 18(4): 417-438.

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Egorova, Yulia (2021). Solidarity and Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in the UK. https://www.mmg.mpg.de/872408/blog-egorova-solidarity.