Michael McEachrane
Senior Research Fellow
- POS 251
Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics
4980 Margaret Morrison St
Posner Hall 341
Pittsburgh, PA
Bio
Michael McEachrane is a researcher in Black European studies, human rights studies and postcolonialism and an international human rights activist from Sweden. Besides being a senior research fellow for the Center for Black European Studies & the Atlantic (CBESA), he is currently a member of the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. As a researcherDr. McEachrane is, among other things, the editor of Decolonial Sweden and Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe, and the author of numerous articles and book chapters on such topics as Pan-Africanism, African diasporas in Europe, anti-discrimination law and systemic racism.
As an activist he has co-founded several civil society organizations and was involved in the establishment of the U.N. Permanent Forum of People of African Descent. Dr. McEachrane was a 2024-2025 Racial Justice Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights and is an external affiliate at the University College London (UCL) Sarah Parker Remond Centre Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation.