Tiffany Jenkins

Tiffany Jenkins is a sociologist and cultural commentator.

A visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, in the Department of Law, her academic research explores challenges to authority in the cultural sector, concepts of cultural value, cultural policy, and cultural property issues such as repatriation and contested objects. These interests are underpinned by a study of authority and how today it has to continually justify itself and is constantly questioned and contested. Her research also examines the symbolic meanings and strategic use of human remains, and how the body becomes a locale for so many cultural, political, and ethical debates.

She is the arts and society director of the London based think tank the Institute of Ideas and a committee member of the Battle of Ideas festival. She writes on cultural issues for the broadsheet press.