Personen

Dr. Arpan Roy

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Aktuelles Forschungsgebiet: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc-Stipendiat am ZMO
Forschungsprojekt: Call to Prayer: Evangelizing in an Arab/Islamic Lifeworld

Academic Appointments

2024 - today
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
2022 - 2023
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Postdoctoral Fellow, American Center of Research in Jordan
2022 - 2023
Research Associate, Program in Islamic Studies, Johns Hopkins University
2021 - 2022
Lecturer & Program Coordinator, Program in Islamic Studies, Johns Hopkins University
2020 - 2022
Lecturer, Humanistic Studies Department, Maryland Institute College of Art

Education

- 2021
PhD, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Publications (selected)

Book

Roy, A. (2024). Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference. University of
Toronto Press. (Forthcoming, In Press).

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Roy, A. (2024). “A Space of Appearance: Romani Publics and Privates in the Middle East.” Anthropological Theory. (Forthcoming, In Press)


Roy, A. (2024). “Neither Sacred nor Profane: Reflections on Life in Islam.” In Limits of Life: Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience. Edited by Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen. Berghahn. (Forthcoming, In Press)


Roy, A. (2024). “A People without a Land: Scarcity, Biopolitics, and Romani People in the Middle East.” In Minorities in Times of Scarcity and Conflict. Edited by Stavroula Pipyrou, Antonio Montañés Jiménez & Camila Ferreira Marinelli. Routledge. (Forthcoming, Under Contract)


Roy, A. & Diz C. (2022) “The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem.” In “Invisible Cities” and the Urban Imagination. Edited by Benjamin Linder: 165-173. Palgrave.


Roy, A. (2020). “The Returns of Life: Making Kinship in Life and Death". Anthropological Theory 20(4): 484-507.


Roy, A. (2020) “Fear of Others: Thinking Biopolitics.” Social Anthropology 28(2): 343-344.


Roy, A. (2019). “Trees of Life: A Photo Essay.” Jerusalem Quarterly 78: 72-76.


Roy, A. (2016) “Reimagining Resilience: Urbanization and Identity in Ramallah and Rawabi.” CITY 20(3): 368–388.

Other Publications

Roy, A. (2024) “Insurgency Then and Now.” Dawn. https://www.dawn.com/news/1803934


Roy, A. (2023) “The Unforgiven.” Allegra Lab. https://allegralaboratory.net/the-unforgiven


Roy, A. (2022). “Islam and a Fragmented Civilization.” New Lines Magazine. https://newlinesmag.com/argument/islam-and-a-fragmented-civilization


Roy, A. (2021). “Islamic Pasts and Futures in Palestine.” PLATFORM. https://www.platformspace.net/home/islamic-pasts-and-futures-in-palestine

 

Awards & Grants

2024
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship, European Commission
2023
Juan de la Cierva-Formación Postdoctoral Fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Declined)
2022
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, American Center of Research in Jordan
2019
Research Fellowship, Palestinian American Research Center
2019
Seasonal Grant in Visual Arts, A.M. al-Qattan Foundation
2018
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic), United States Department of Education
2017
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic), United States Department of Education
2016
Language Study Grant (Arabic), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2013
Sally Casanova Predoctoral Fellowship, California State University