About

I am a historian and literary critic of South Asian people in Britain and Europe. Spanning the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, I research and write about race, resistance, and revolution, focusing particularly on Indian anticolonialism, nationalism, and anarchism, as well as the contemporary legacies of colonialism, racism, riots, and human rights.

I am currently a Visiting Research Fellow at LMU Munich, Germany

https://www.radicalutopia.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/team/laursen/index.html

I am currently an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany.

https://www.zmo.de/en/people/dr-birk-laursen

I am on the Editorial Board of Anarchist Studies