Dr Johanna Romer
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Email
johanna.romer@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872665
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Location
5A.318, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Johanna Römer is a lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research examines how state power and political authority are produced through the everyday interactions and experiences of persons working within and subject to criminal justice institutions. Römer’s book manuscript, Race, Care and Carceral Statecraft is an ethnography of carceral practices of care and their effects in a Catalan prison. Other projects include research on the circulation of emotion and affect in digital publics. Her work has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Council for European Studies, the British Academy and the Independent Social Research Foundation.
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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Introduction to Social Anthropology (SC107)
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Dangerous Ideas: Essays and Manifestos as Social Criticism Capstone (CS301)
Publications
Journal articles (6)
Romer, J., 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
Romer, J., Building a Coalition of Makers: Conceptualizing the Relationship between Race and Producerist Politics in Trump's Discourse
Romer, J., Mapping Ideological Communities on Twitter: A Discourse Analytic Approach to Theorizing Ideological Alignment in Neo-Reactionary Networks. New Media and Society
Romer, J., The Moral Economy of Empathy: Race and the Socialization of Neoliberal Subjectivities in Catalan Carceral Governance. Ethos
Romer, J., Rethinking Reception Frameworks through Social Media: Tracking the Circulation of Political Discourse on Twitter
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
Books (1)
Romer, J., Prisoners of Empathy: Race, Care and Carceral Statecraft in Spain
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