Johanna Romer

Johanna Römer is a Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex, specializing in legal anthropology, political anthropology, and digital media studies. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from New York University and researches moral politics of race and gender in legal contexts across the US, Southern Europe, and North Africa.

• PhD, Anthropology, New York University
• BA, University of Chicago

Her current projects examine neoliberalism, race, and securitization within networked media and tech collectives shaping right-wing movements in the US and Europe. Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, British Academy, and other grants, Römer's work employs ethnographic and computational methods to analyze ideological communities.

She teaches courses including Dangerous Ideas: Essays and Manifestos as Social Criticism, Introduction to Crime, Law and Society, and Digital Society. Römer currently supervises PhD candidates in criminology and sociology.