Hadil Louz

Hadil Louz is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews, an MSc in Social Anthropology from the LSE, and an MA in International Human Rights Law from Oxford Brookes University. She has been awarded four funded scholarships—Sanctuary, STEPs, Tanya Baker-Asad, and FfWG—and is an alumna of the Europaeum Scholars Programme.

Her research focuses on the Palestinian diaspora in Europe, particularly Berlin, and examines the tensions between German memory culture and Palestinian practices of steadfastness and counter-memory. Her work explores repressive and silencing state practices, both material and discursive, and refugees' efforts to create and sustain alternative narratives through overt protest, as well as the creation of living archives and cultural activity, from public art to intimate practices of homemaking. More broadly, her research engages with questions of statelessness, dispossession, political belonging, memory, resistance, and the criminalisation of political expression.

Her research has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and she has presented her work across academic and public-facing platforms. Alongside her research, Hadil has extensive experience in programme coordination and initiatives supporting displaced scholars and refugee communities.