Asif Majid

Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights

Affiliate Faculty in Anthropology

Asian and Asian American Studies

Interdisciplinary Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Asif Majid is a theatre maker, educator, researcher, and consultant whose work scripts, stages, and traces local and global nodes of history, power, performance, race, and (de)coloniality, particularly through devising community-based participatory theatre and attending to the intersection of Islam and performance. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, where he is also Affiliate Faculty in Anthropology; Asian and Asian American Studies; Interdisciplinary Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Asif’s past work include an Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellow at the Arab American National Museum and a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellowship at the San Francisco Arts Commission. His book, Making Muslimness: Race, Religion, and Performance in Contemporary Manchester, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2025.

Asif has published in multiple peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as numerous books and media outlets. His US performance credits include work with the Kennedy Center, Convergence Theatre, and Theatre Prometheus, while his UK performance credits include the Royal Exchange Theatre, Action Transport Theatre, and Unity Theatre. Asif earned his PhD in Anthropology, Media, and Performance from The University of Manchester; his MA in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University; and his self-designed BA in Interdisciplinary Studies: Global Peace Building and Conflict Management from UMBC. He maintains an active consulting practice on issues of racial justice, power sharing, arts administration, and organizational capacity and structure, all through an applied theatre and social justice lens, and can be found online at www.asifmajid.com.