Gala Rexer

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick

I am currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Sociology Department and an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation (SPRC). In Fall 2025, I will be a Visiting Research Fellow at New York University’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. At Warwick, I serve as one of the co-directors of the Social Theory Centre. At UCL, I am a contributor to the SPRC podcast series.

Before joining Warwick, I was a Lecturer (Visiting Assistant Professor) in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at UCL’s SPRC (2023-2024), as well as the Centre’s inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-23). I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (awarded January 2022), funded by the German Heinrich Böll Foundation. My writing, teaching, and public engagement work draws from the fields of feminist and queer theory, anti-colonial thought, and medical and global sociology.

My work has appeared in academic journals including Body and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Comparative Sociology, as well as The Sociological Review Magazine, Social Text, and Films for the Feminist Classroom (forthcoming). I am currently a guest editor for a Special Issue on Sociology in the Times of Genocide in The Sociological Review.

My first book, titled Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Israel/Palestine (forthcoming with the University of California Press), shows how Israeli policies profoundly impact Palestinian women’s reproductive rights, health, and decision-making and foregrounds the sexual politics of settler colonialism in Israel and beyond.