Adam R. North

• Early Career Researcher, Religions and Theology Department, University of Manchester

Adam R. North is an early career researcher at the University of Manchester. Dr North is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of political theology, performance theory, and critical discourse analysis. His research focuses on the role of bodily performance and communication in the public sphere-particularly within the contexts of protest, sport, comedy, and structural racism-and explores how embodied acts function as sites of resistance and meaning-making.

He completed his PhD in Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, funded by the AHRC. His doctoral thesis, 'The Human Body as Object and Performance: Critique of Structural Racism Through Bodily Performance', offers an original contribution to political theology by developing a framework for understanding protest gestures-such as Colin Kaepernick's kneeling-as performative critiques of power. Drawing on discourse analysis and performance theory, his research foregrounds the theological and political dimensions of embodied resistance, especially in relation to race, public space, and spectatorship.

Adam writes and teaches on topics including religion and race, protest and public space, political philosophy, and the role of media in shaping public discourse. His work aims to connect academic research with current social issues, and he has presented at international conferences on the political significance of embodied resistance. He is committed to public scholarship that is accessible, critically engaged, and socially relevant.

• 2022–2023 Research assistant, University of Manchester

• 2025 University of Manchester, PhD Religions and Theology
• 2021 University of Manchester, MA Religions and Theology

• 2022 FOUCAULT AND ANTIQUITY - (P.A.) Miller Foucault's Seminars on Antiquity. Learning to Speak the Truth. Pp. xiv + 218. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Cased, £70, US$95. ISBN: 978-1-4742-7866-9, Cambridge Classics Review
• 2021 The Comic as the Modern Parrhēsíastes, Academia Letters

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