Brad Evans is a Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence 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 conflicts and political affairs. He previously held academic positions at the University of Bristol and the University of Leeds, while also teaching at Columbia University, New York. 

Brads current research is focused on 4 key areas which include - 1) The violence of disappearance 2) The politics of disposability 3) Spectacles of violence 4) Investigating the role art plays in providing a transgressive witnessing to atrocities, including the visualisation of absence.