Dr. Salome Ietter

Biography

Salome Ietter is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow (Research Associate) in Sociological and Cultural Studies at the University of Glasgow. She joined the institution in September 2025 for a project titled 'French British ‘Left Behinds’: Race, Gender, Class Identity'. Prior to her current role, she was a lecturer at the University of Warwick, where she taught political theory and international development with a focus on race and gender. Salome completed her PhD in political theory at Queen Mary University of London with a thesis discussing anti-populism in the crisis of 'liberal democracy'. She has taught for five years at Queen Mary King's College London and is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Salome's current research examines the discursive construction of lived realities and the competing discourses surrounding 'the people', particularly in relation to the working class's role in the reproduction and transformation of challenges posed by capitalist states. Her research interests broadly encompass class consciousness, capitalism (with a specific focus on state, gender, and race), populism and anti-populism, and contemporary left politics. Salome employs a range of approaches including critical discourse analysis, Marxism, and post-colonial studies in her scholarly work.

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