Michael Stewart

PhD from the LSE in 1988 based on fieldwork in Hungary with Rom, has taught Anthropology at Cambridge, Budapest, Vienna and at UCL in London. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Anthropology at UCL and founded both the Open City Documentary Festival there as well as the collaboration between anthropologists and creative practitioners at UCL known as ‘Public Anthropology.’ He is currently completing a comprehensive history of the persecution of Europe's Romany peoples 1933-1945 and the campaigns for restitution and acknowledgement afterwards. Publications include The Time of the Gypsies (Perseus).