The Complex Terrain Laboratory just got a whole lot smarter... Dr. Brad Evans, a colleague in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), at the University of Leeds, is joining CTlab. Brad is a political theorist and Lecturer in Global Terror (how's that for  a handle!?!) at POLIS, as well as founder/curator of the nascent Histories of Violence project. He'll be contributing to Current Intelligence, CTlab's current affairs blog, and participating in other CTlab funnies as they come up. Here's a snippet from his faculty bio:

I am a political theorist specialising in the fields of terror, governance, and political violence. My work is particularly interested in exploring 1) the contemporary nature of terror, especially the divine role terror has assumed within the Liberal imaginary 2) the depoliticizing nature of Liberal forms of governance 3) the imperial nature of Kantian thought 4) the re-problematisation of violence in today’s post-Clausewitzean world 5) the shift in security discourses and practices towards event based thinking 6) the critical relevance of the works of Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Paul Virilio to global politics and international affairs.

Welcome, Brad!