Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer, whose work specializes on the problem of violence. He is the founder/director of the Histories of Violence project, which has a global user base covering 143 countries. The author of some 10 books and edited volumes, along with over 40 academic and media articles, Brad currently serves as a senior lecturer at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies, at the University of Bristol, UK. Throughout 2015-’16, Brad led a series of articles and dialogues dedicated to the problem of violence for the opinions section of The New York Times (The Stone).

Brad’s latest books include Histories of Violence: Post-War Critical Thought (with Terrell Carver, Zed Books, 2017); Portraits of Violence: Ten Thinkers on Violence – An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking (with Sean Michael Wilson, New Internationalist, 2016); Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (with Henry Giroux, City Lights: 2015); Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (with Julian Reid, Polity Press, 2014); and Liberal Terror (Polity Press, 2013). He is currently working on a number of book projects, including Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2018).

He also edits the Histories of Violence Section of Los Angeles Review of Books.