Taylor Waldron

Email: t.j.waldron@qmul.ac.uk

PhD Project

‘The act of killing’: A global comparison of intimate atrocities and their dynamic processes.

My scholarly interest surrounds the study of violence and perpetrators through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing on history, anthropology, philosophy, and cultural studies. 
By covering various typologies of violence, including but not limited to lynchings, ethnic riots, pogroms, and genocides, my doctoral project examines the conditions under which civilian participation in collective violence is perceived as necessary and justifiable across different cultural, temporal and spatial spheres.
This project seeks to interrogate the recurring structures that underpin violent events and to examine how these structures intersect with contextually contingent forms of rationality.

Supervisor

Kim Wagner, Department of History, QMUL
Chris Moffat, Department of History, QMUL

Funding

Queen Mary HSS Doctoral Research Studentship

Academic Background

Queen Mary University of London: BA History
University College London: Politics, Violence and Crime MSc

Conference Presentations

Northwestern University exchange 2024: ‘The Act of Killing’: A global comparison of intimate atrocities and its dynamic processes.
Northwestern University exchange 2026: Perspectives on Perpetrators and Reading Their Voices.