Farid Hafez

Farid Hafez has been Class of 1955 Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College since 2021. Before, he was a researcher at lecturer at Salzburg University, Department of Political Science and Sociology. In 2017, Farid was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley and in 2014, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York City. He is the founding editor of the German-English Islamophobia Studies Yearbook (since 2010) and co-editor of the annual European Islamophobia Report (since 2015), a collaborative work with 40 scholars covering more than 30 European countries. Hafez regularly appears on prominent media outlets throughout the world. He was awarded the prestigious 2010 Bruno Kreisky-Award for the Political Book of the Year for his anthology on Islamophobia in Austria. Hafez has more than 150 publications and publishes in internationally renowned journals such as Politics and Religion, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Patterns of Prejudice, German Politics and Society. His latest include ‘The rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror. Coloniality, race, and Islam’ (Manchester University Press, 2022) and a forthcoming anthology ‘Operation Luxor’ (Transcrip Verlag, 2023).