Gurminder K. Bhambra is professor of Sociology and director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick. Bhambra was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sussex and researcher at the Five College Women's Studies Research Centre at Mount Holyoke College, USA, where she was also Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Social Thought. Her research addresses how, within sociological understandings of modernity, the experiences and claims of non-European 'others' have been rendered invisible to the dominant narratives and analytical frameworks of sociology. She is author of Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (2007), which was awarded the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2008 for best first book in sociology. Her second book, Connected Sociologies, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.