Dr Kenny Monrose

Position Governing Body Fellow
School Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Sociology
Email km757@cam.ac.uk
Department link Sociology

Dr Monrose is an urban ethnographer at Cambridge Sociology. He is also an undergraduate tutor, PhD mentor and the convener for the Race, Ethnicity & Faith working group here at Wolfson College.

Dr Monrose completed a PhD in Sociology in 2013 examining the life course of maturing Black men with a focus on criminal preclusion and non-criminal participation. He acted as the lead researcher for the Black British Voices project and is the Convener of the REACH@Wolfson research hub and a tutor for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is also a member of Film & Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a member of the Centre for the Studies in Global Human Movement.

His expertise lies in the areas of criminal justice, 'race', and urban cultures, and is interested in the impact of Afro-descendent music within and around the Black Atlantic.

Dr Monrose is the principal investigator on the Black British Voices Project, a national study in partnership with the University of Cambridge, The Voice Newspaper and I-Cubed consultancy group. He is an affiliate at The Centre for Screen & Film within the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, and a member of Centre for the study of Global Human Movement at the University of Cambridge. He is also an advisory board member for Education & Culture at the South Bank Centre London.

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A vibrant abstract collage filled with layered cut-paper shapes, symbols, and text fragments in bright reds, oranges, blues, and purples, radiating outward from a glowing central area.

Art Exhibition: 'Epic Journeys'

18/04/2026 at 10.00

Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'Epic Journeys' featuring work by distinguished artist Hassan Aliyu.

An older woman in a red striped shirt and glasses stretches her arms out while standing on a sandy beach with waves in the background.

Lessons from WHO Non-Communicable Disease Initiative about Chronic Disease

21/04/2026 at 17.30

What links osteoporosis and heart disease? Dr Gordon Klein reveals surprising connections between two of ageing's biggest health challenges, and what they mean for prevention.