Brad Evans is a Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath, United Kingdom. He is the author of twenty books and edited volumes, along with over a hundred and fifty academic and international media articles. Brad has written extensively on the state of international affairs, while having made a number of telling theoretical contributions to the understanding of violence. He previously held academic positions at the Universities of Bristol and Leeds, while also teaching at Columbia University, New York. 

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Throughout 2015-17, Brad led a dedicated series of conversations on violence with leading critical thinkers for The New York Times opinion section (The Stone). He later continued the conversation as lead editor in a column dealing with violence and the arts/critical theory with the Los Angeles Review of Books, which ran from 2017-2022. He is currently the editor of the Violent Times feature for American Book Review.  

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A recipient of a number of grants and scholarships, in 2018, Brad won a prestigious Independent Publishers Award. His works have been translated into many languages including, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian, Finnish, Dutch, Chinese, Greek, Turkish and Korean. 

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For the past few years, Brads research has focused on the violence of disappearance. Working with Chantal Meza, he has co-curated and directed a number of exhibitions in prominent international galleries and public settings, which have been complemented by a series of high-profiled events and engagements. A series of books and edited volumes have accompanied these initiatives, including the coauthored books "Disappearance: The Normalisation of the Extreme" (Forthcoming, 2027) and "State of Disappearance" (2023). A key focus in this work has been to bridge the artistic, academic and policy worlds. 

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Committed to education in the public interest, Brad continues to work in consultation and partnership with a number of global organisations in both the policy and cultural fields, most recently including the International Committee of the Red Cross; the British Red Cross; the Embassy of Switzerland in London; and Save the Children. 

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Brad is founder and director of the Histories of Violence project, which has a user base spanning 148 different countries. Alongside producing its content and managing its online presence, he has also instigated its open access research projects on dedicated themes.

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Brad has delivered many talks at many global universities such as Harvard, NYU, Columbia, UCLA, UDLAP, Oxford and Heidelberg, along with world leading art centres, including the Guggenheim in New York, and the Museums of Modern Art in London and Wales and Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City. Further talks in prominent contemporary galleries have been delivered in Leeds, Liverpool, Stockholm and London.

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Brad has also written and spoken extensively about his own life growing up in poverty in South Wales. His semi-biographical book “How Black was my Valley received notable acclaim and inspired a 2-part BBC radio series titled “Despair to Where”.  

 

Brad has been a visiting fellow at the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, New York (2013-14), distinguished society fellow at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (2017) and visiting fellow at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (2005-2008). In 2023, he was invited to be a visiting fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University in Germany, where is also led a number of cultural initiatives.
 
Brad regularly makes television, radio and podcast appearances to global broadcast audiences including televised interviews on the BBC, ITV, CNN, Al Jazeera, Sky News and TRT World. Extended interviews have featured on numerous programs, including LBC radio. 

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Brad has written for many prominent news outlets such as the New York Times, Newsweek, the Times (U.K.), the Guardian, the Independent, The Times Higher Education, UnHerd, World Financial Review, TruthOut, Counterpunch and Wales Arts Review. His projects have been featured in various outlets including NME, Business Standard, The Telegraph, Metro, The Indian Times, Pakistan Today, Hamilton Spectator, CBS news, ABC news, El Pais, Art Review, Trebuchet Art Magazine, and Art Forum to name a few.