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Daniel McNeil
NationalityBritish
EducationB.A.H. in History, Oxford University (2001), M.A. in History/Ethnic and Pluralism Studies (2002), Ph.D. in History (2007), University of Toronto
Occupation(s)Historian, cultural studies scholar, professor
EmployerUniversity of Birmingham
Notable workThinking While Black, Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic
TitleProfessor and Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair
Awards
  • Stuart Hall Outstanding Mentor Award (2025)
  • Editor’s Award, Canadian Journal of Communication (2022)
  • Carleton University Research Award (2015)
Academic background
Alma materOxford University, University of Toronto
Academic work
DisciplineHistory, Cultural Studies
Sub-disciplineBlack Atlantic Studies, Diaspora Studies, Public Humanities, Migration and Multiculturalism
Main interestsBlack Studies and liberation, black student activism and critique, globalization and black health

Daniel McNeil is a British historian, public intellectual, and cultural studies scholar specializing in Black Atlantic Studies, Diaspora Studies, and anti-racist education. As of 2025, McNeil is the inaugural Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair at the University of Birmingham.[1][2][3][4][5]

Early life and education

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Originally from Merseyside, England,[6] McNeil has a B.A.H. from Oxford University. He earned an M.A. in History/Ethnic and Pluralism Studies from the University of Toronto, where he also received his Ph.D. in History in 2007.[7][2][8]

Career and contributions

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McNeil is a Professor in the School of Social Policy and Society and the inaugural Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair at the University of Birmingham.[9]

Prior to joining Birmingham, he was a director of the Oxford Access Scheme Summer School (2001-2), a lecturer in Black and Minority Studies at the University of Hull (2007–2010), a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University (2010–2012), and a research fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation.[7][10][11]

From 2012 to 2014, he served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Visiting Professor at DePaul University.[7][10][2]

McNeil has also held visiting professorships and fellowships at DePaul University,[7][10][2] where he was the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Visiting Professor between 2012 and 2014, and the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, where he was the inaugural Public Humanities Faculty Fellow in 2019–2020.[7][5]

In 2014 McNeil was selected as Carleton University's strategic hire in Migration and Diaspora Studies.[7][4] He received two research achievement awards at Carleton and co-authored an eight-step anti-racism plan that gathered over 500 signatures from the university community.[12]

From 2019-20, McNeil was the inaugural Public Humanities Faculty Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.[7][5]

In 2021, he was appointed the Queen's National Scholar Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University in recognition of his demonstrated excellence in cultivating innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research programs as well as rich and rewarding learning experiences for students to study and engage the connections between the arts, social justice, and decolonial thought.[1][2][3][4][5] Since 2022, he has been an executive producer and host of the Black Studies Podcast,[13] which assembles artists, activists, curators, scholars, and musicians to discuss creative and collaborative knowledge-making, building and sharing.[1][14][15]

McNeil is known for his work on migration, multiculturalism, and mentorship. His article, "Even Canadians Find It a Bit Boring: A Report on the Banality of Multiculturalism" (2021),[16] was the inaugural recipient of the Editor's Award from the Canadian Journal of Communication, and he has been invited to provide advice, consultation and lectures on multiculturalism and anti-racism to the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. He has also contributed to research handbooks that bring together the leading authorities on the most essential concepts, arguments, and research regarding multiculturalism from an international perspective.[17]

McNeil is involved in public humanities projects, co-designing museum exhibitions, gallery events, and educational modules such as An Immigrant's Guide to Canada and Mapping the African Diaspora in Canada.[10][11] In February 2015, McNeil delivered the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Intercultural Lecture at Elmhurst College titled "The Strange Eventful History of Young Soul Rebels".[18] Between 2021 and 2025, he received three Black Excellence in Mentorship Awards from Queen's University and the Stuart Hall Outstanding Mentor Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.[10][11]

McNeil's Thinking While Black has received reviews from scholars, curators and students of Black Studies and cognate studies of racism and racialization. Kamari Clarke,[a] David Theo Goldberg,[b] and Lawrence Grossberg[c] have described Thinking While Black as an "important," "nuanced," "deeply informed," "lucid," "smart," and "wonderfully novel" analysis of the aspirations and achievements of Black Atlantic communities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.[19] In her review of the book, Antonia King regarded the book as "a necessary and innovative exploration of Black culture, Black disagreement, and debate."[20] Nicholas Rickards regarded the book as an important resource for understanding the contributions of two intellectuals, Paul Gilroy and Armond White, within the context of Black critical consciousness and popular culture.[21]

Publications

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Books

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  • McNeil, Daniel. Thinking While Black: Translating the politics and popular culture of a rebel generation. Rutgers University Press, 2023.[14][3][15][22][20][21]
  • McNeil, Daniel. Sex and race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto devils and multiracial messiahs. Routledge, 2010.[18][22]

Edited

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  • Meerzon, Yana, David Dean, and Daniel McNeil, eds. Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.[7][22]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Leading through exceptional mentorship | Queen's University Faculty of Arts and Science". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Welcome to Dr. Vanessa Thompson and Dr. Daniel McNeil | Department of Gender Studies". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  3. ^ a b c "Connections beyond boundaries | Queen's Gazette". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d "Daniel McNeil Wins Carleton University Research Prize Award". Department of History. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  5. ^ a b c d "Seven new faculty members join the Black Studies program | Queen's Gazette". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  6. ^ "British scholar Daniel McNeil appointed DePaul's professor for African-American Studies". wdat.is.depaul.edu. Retrieved 2 May 2025. "I am incredibly honored to be named to this post at DePaul especially as Chicago is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ida B. Wells-Barnett," said McNeil, a native of Merseyside, England.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h "Daniel McNeil Becomes First Person to Hold the Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship". Department of History. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Daniel McNeil | Department of History, Queen's University". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  9. ^ "University of Birmingham announces new Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  10. ^ a b c d e "Daniel McNeil Focuses on New Approaches to Anti-Racist Education". Carleton Newsroom. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  11. ^ a b c "Daniel McNeil talks to the Carleton Newsroom about Black History and Anti-Racist Futures". Department of History. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  12. ^ "Daniel McNeil Talks to the Ottawa Citizen About Creating an "Anti-Racist University"". Department of History. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  13. ^ "The Black Studies Podcast". shows.acast.com. 5 September 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  14. ^ a b "BAR Book Forum: Daniel McNeil's Book, "Thinking While Black" | Black Agenda Report". Black Agenda Report. 10 October 2023. Archived from the original on 6 February 2025. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  15. ^ a b "An exciting new chapter for Black Studies at Queen's | Queen's Gazette". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  16. ^ McNeil, Daniel (9 September 2021). "Even Canadians Find It a Bit Boring: A Report on the Banality of Multiculturalism". Canadian Journal of Communication. 46 (3): 403–429. doi:10.22230/cjc.2021v46n3a4031. ISSN 0705-3657.
  17. ^ Research Handbook on Multiculturalism, Edward Elgar Publishing, 20 March 2025, ISBN 978-1-80088-400-7, retrieved 2 May 2025
  18. ^ a b "Daniel McNeil to Give Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture". Elmhurst University. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  19. ^ "Thinking While Black". Rutgers University Press. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  20. ^ a b King, Antonia (31 August 2023). "Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation , by Daniel McNeil". Twentieth Century British History. 34 (3): 581–582. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwac048. ISSN 0955-2359.
  21. ^ a b Rickards, Nicholas (4 May 2023). "Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation , Daniel McNeil, Toronto, Canada, Between the Lines, 2022, x + 184 pp., $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-177-11-3607-5: Daniel McNeil, Toronto, Canada, Between the Lines, 2022, x + 184 pp., $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-177-11-3607-5". Critical Arts. 37 (3): 129–131. doi:10.1080/02560046.2023.2185272. ISSN 0256-0046.
  22. ^ a b c McNeil, Daniel. "Thinking While Black".
  23. ^ "Stuart Hall". The Caribbean Philosophical Association. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  24. ^ "Here Comes the Sun by Daniel McNeil". Gallery TPW. Retrieved 2 May 2025.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto
  2. ^ Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
  3. ^ Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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