Staff profile

Overview

I graduated from the Moscow State University and received my PhD degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (Univerity of London). 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 experiences of Jewish and Muslim communities in the UK and debates about definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia.

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

• Religion and race
• Anthropology of Jewish communities
• Jewish-Muslim relations
• Anthropology of science
• Minorities

• 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). Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative. In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures. Valman, N. & Roth, L. Routledge. 353-364.
• 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, 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 (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. (2010). DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates. BioSocieties 5(3): 348-365.
• Egorova, Y. & Perwez, S. (2010). The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh. Anthropology Today 26(6): 14-19.
• Egorova, Y. (2010). From Dalits to Bene Ephraim: Judaism in Andhra Pradesh. Religions of South Asia 4(1): 105-124.
• Egorova, Y. (2010). Castes of genes? Representing human genetic diversity in India. Genomics, Society and Policy 6(3): 32-49.
• 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.