Dr Johanna Romer
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Johanna Römer is a lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from New York University, and specializes in an anthropology of law and politics, postcolonial studies, linguistic anthropology, and studies of new media and technology. Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Council for European Studies, the British Academy, and the Independent Foundation for Social Research, her work examines a moral politics of race and gender in legal and criminal justice contexts in the US, southern Europe and North Africa under conditions of late neoliberalism. Her current computational and ethnographic projects theorize the relationship between neoliberalism, race, and securitization within the networked media and face-to-face tech collectives that have shaped an emergent new right in the US and Europe.
Qualifications
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PhD New York University,
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BA University of Chicago,
Research and professional activities
Conferences and presentations
CommunityMapper: New Network Analytic Approaches to Understanding Ideological Communities on Social Media
22/10/2021
Roundtable on 'Trading Life'
Invited presentation, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, 29/5/2021
Enforcing Integration? Regulating and Constructing Legality in Catalan Prisons
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States, 1/6/2020
Epistemologies of the South
Invited presentation, Modern Language Association Presidential Roundtable, 10/1/2020
Rights, Regulation and Social Formations: New Directions in Legal Anthropology
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 22/11/2019
Borders, Biomes and Biospheres: Policing Beyond the Urban
Invited presentation, European Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, European Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, 12/9/2019
Meditations on Racial Justice
Invited presentation, Transitions Program, Engaged Pluralism Initiative, Vassar College, Vassar College, 31/7/2019
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Dangerous Ideas: Essays and Manifestos as Social Criticism Capstone (CS301)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 21/8/2023
Publications
Journal articles (2)
Romer, J., (2023). Building a Coalition of Makers: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Race and Producerist Politics in Trump’s Discourse. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 1-19
Römer, J., (2019). Ambiguous publicities: Cultivating doubt at the intersection of competing genres of risk evaluation in Catalan Prisons. Punishment and Society. 21 (3), 342-363
Conferences (1)
Romer, J., (2007). La Semiótica del Discurso Jurídico
Grants and funding
2020
Deciphering Violence: New Network Analytic Tools to Improve Hate Speech Detection Online
Independent Social Research Foundation
2019
National Law, Transnational Justice? The Role of Legal Status in Parole Decision-Making in Catalonia, Spain
British Academy
