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. He previously held academic positions at the University of Bristol and the University of Leeds, while also teaching at Columbia University, New York.

Brads work focuses on a number of themes, which deal with violence in its multiple forms. Having grown up in conditions of acute poverty in the South Wales valleys, a recent focus for his work has been to look at post-industrial communities and their ongoing problems. His book, How Black was My Valley, which offered an honest portrayal of life in a post mining community received notable acclaim and was the focus for a 2-part BBC radio series.

In a more global context, having worked extensively on media spectacles of violence and the challenges they pose for societies, Brad has since 2017 been working more intently on the violence of disappearance. This work has been developed in collaboration with Mexican painter Chantal Meza. Their project has resulted in numerous outputs, such as a series of art exhibitions in prominent galleries, many public talks and workshops, books and articles, along with high profiled webinar series they have led. Key to this project is idea to bring art into conversation with academics, policy makers and wider publics.

Brad has led columns on violence with the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books and is currently the Violent Times feature editor with American Book Review. He is also founder of the Histories of Violence project.

Brad regularly makes television, radio and podcast appearances to global broadcast audiences including televised interviews on the BBC, ITV, CNN, Al Jazeera, and TRT World. Extended interviews have featured on numerous programs, including LBC radio.

Brad has written for many prominent news outlets such as the New York Times, Newsweek, the Times (U.K.), UnHerd, the Guardian, the Independent, The Times Higher Education, World Financial Review, Counterpunch and Wales Arts Review.