LISTED AS ONE OF THE BBC’S BROADCASTING STARS OF THE FUTURE 2017, EMMA DABIRI IS A PRESENTER, SOCIAL HISTORIAN AND WRITER

Emma has previously presented Back in Time for Brixtonand the Back in Time Confectioners series (BBC Two), Is Love Racist? (Channel 4) and has done a number of social history films for The One Show (BBC). She currently co-presents Britain’s Lost Masterpieces (BBC4). On radio she has hosted BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review and Front Row and her first Radio 4 documentary Journeys in Afrofuturism first aired in June 2018.

Emma’s debut book Don’t Touch My Hair will be published by Penguin, Allen Lane, in 2019. She is a columnist for The Dublin Inquirer and is one of the BBC’s Expert Voices. She has also had work published in a number of academic journals and newspapers. Emma’s interdisciplinary work crosses African Studies, art, sociology, history, film, literature, theatre, popular culture and music. She is a teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS.

She gives regular talks and takes part on panels at festivals and arts venues. Emma also DJs and hosts a range of live events.

SPECIALIST AREAS:

ARTS
Lost Masterpieces, LIFT Theatre festival content editor, Radio 4 Afrofuturism documentary, Front Row, Saturday Review
FASHION
Visual sociologist, commercial modelling, author
FOOD & DRINK
Back in Time for Brixton, Back in Time Confectioners series
HISTORY
BA History, Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, Back in Time Brixton, Back in Time Confectioners
RELIGION & ETHICS
PhD sociology, teaching fellow, author