Joseph Finlay is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, funded by the Rothschild Foundation Europe. His research project focuses on Jewish colonial governors in the British Empire in the twentieth century. The project looks at eight politicians who governed diverse territories across the empire from the start of the century until the era of decolonisation in the early 1960s. Joseph gained a PhD in history from the University of Southampton in 2023, on the subject of British Jews and race relations, on which topic he is currently writing a monograph for Manchester University Press. He also recently completed a history of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality.