Dr. Meghan Tinsley

Biography

Meghan Tinsley joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester in September 2018. She received her PhD from Boston University in 2018. Previously, she earned an MSc in Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies from the London School of Economics in 2010 and a BA in International Relations from Wellesley College in 2007. Tinsley's research focuses on themes of nationalism, memory, and empire. Her recent projects explore contestation of statues, imperial nostalgia, and decolonizing museums. She has published in various international sociological and interdisciplinary journals, including Memory Studies, Current Sociology, Critical Sociology, Postcolonial Studies, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. Tinsley authored a book entitled "Commemorating Muslims in the World War Centenary: Making Melancholia" (Routledge), which examines the historical conflicts framed as a European civil war and their impact on contemporary identities in post-imperial, multicultural nations. Her current project investigates the memorialization of anti-colonial struggles and how this shapes postcolonial nations using qualitative mixed methods. Tinsley is convenor of the Decolonial Reading Group and is involved in the British Sociological Association's Postcolonial and Decolonial Transformations Study Group.

Research Interests