Kayla Fraser

Race and Africanity in Tunisian Football Fandom

Kayla Fraser (she/her) is a PhD / DPhil candidate in Geography researching race, identity, and cultural politics in contemporary North Africa. Her current work examines Tunisian football fandom as a critical arena where bodily performance, modes of spectatorship, and territorial claims function as tools of racial formation. She is particularly interested in the complexities of postcolonial subjectivities and articulations of Africanity amid contested processes of nationhood, migration, and social transformation in Tunisia.

She holds a BA in History from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1), an M1 in International Relations from Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II), and an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford. She was awarded a Clarendon and Black Academic Futures Scholarship to support her doctoral studies.

Alongside her academic work, she has spent time at the French Embassy in London and UN agencies, and has been involved in community-based projects related to refugee support, sexual health, and education – experiences which continue to shape her critical orientation toward politically engaged and ethically committed scholarship.