Staff profile

Overview

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 notion of inter-community solidarity, focusing on initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK. I am Co-Investigator on an international Open Research Area-funded project Muslim-Jewish Encounter, Diversity and Distance in Urban Europe: Religion, Culture and Social Model. 

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

• Anthropology of religion
• Anthropology of science
• Interfaith dialogue
• Minorities and the state
• Religion and race

Authored book

• Egorova, Y. (2018). Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199856237.001.0001
• Egorova, Y., & Perwez, S. (2013). The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199929214.001.0001

Chapter in book

• Egorova, Y. (2022). Science, Sovereignty, and Diaspora: Alternative Genealogies and DNA Research on Jewish Populations. In S. Gilman (Ed.), Jews and Science. Purdue University Press
• Egorova, Y. (2022). ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity. In B. Gidley, & S. S. Everett (Eds.), Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience (231-249). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514331_012
• Egorova, Y., & Ahmed, F. (2017). The Impact of Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: Memory, Experience, Context. In J. Renton, & B. Gidley (Eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe : a shared story? (283-301). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41302-4_11
• Egorova, Y. (2014). Terrorists in the village? Negotiating Jewish-Muslim relations in South Asia. In S. L. Gilman (Ed.), Jews, Christians, Muslims : collaboration and conflict in the age of diaspora (115-131). Hong Kong University Press
• Egorova, Y. (2014). Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative. In N. Valman, & L. Roth (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of contemporary Jewish cultures (353-364). Routledge
• Egorova, Y. (2011). DNA, Authentizitat und historisches Gedachtnis. In M. Sommer, & G. Kruger (Eds.), Biohistorische Anthropologie: Knochen, Korper und DNA in Erinnerungskulturen (33-54). Kadmos

Journal Article

• Egorova, Y. (in press). Time, Materiality, and History in UK-based Interfaith Solidarity Work. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief,
• Egorova, Y. (2024). Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 30(2), 265-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14057
• Egorova, Y. (2023). Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom. Anthropological Theory, 24(1), 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231179520
• Egorova, Y. (2018). DNA, reconciliation and social empowerment. British Journal of Sociology, 69(3), 545-551. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12597
• Egorova, Y. (2015). Redefining the Converted Jewish Self: Race, Religion and Israel's Bene Menashe. American Anthropologist, 117(3), 493-505. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12293
• Egorova, Y. (2013). The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia. Contemporary South Asia, 21(3), 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2013.826627
• Egorova, Y., & Perwez, S. (2012). Old memories, new histories: (re)discovering the past of Jewish Dalits. History and Anthropology, 23(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2012.649272
• Egorova, Y., & Perwez, S. (2010). The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh. Anthropology Today, 26(6), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2010.00770.x
• Egorova, Y. (2010). DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates. BioSocieties, 5(3), 348-365. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2010.18
• Egorova, Y. (2010). Castes of genes? Representing human genetic diversity in India. Genomics, society and policy, 6(3), 32-49. https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-5354-6-3-32
• Egorova, Y. (2010). From Dalits to Bene Ephraim: Judaism in Andhra Pradesh. Religions of South Asia, 4(1), 105-124
• Egorova, Y. (2009). De/geneticizing caste: population genetic research in South Asia. Science as Culture, 18(4), 417-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505430902806975

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Egorova, Y. (2021). Solidarity and Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in the UK. https://www.mmg.mpg.de/872408/blog-egorova-solidarity