Roxani Krystalli

Roxani Krystalli

Class of 2008, Germany
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of St Andrews
Krystalli

Thesis Topic: Representations of leadership in Weimar film and photography

What Now: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of St Andrews, Scotland

Follow Me: @rkrystalli (Twitter); website

My undergraduate studies centered around understanding narratives of violence and injustice, as conveyed in texts in both the social sciences and the humanities. I was particularly interested in critical analyses of power, and specifically in feminist theory and gender analysis of armed conflict. After graduating from Harvard, I was committed to understanding violence not only in theory and from a distance, but also in terms of exploring how individuals experience it in the day to day and build lives in its wake. For over a decade, I worked as a humanitarian and peacebuilding practitioner with a specific focus on gender and violence. I now explore similar questions as an academic, based at the University of St Andrews, where my research and teaching focus on feminist peace and conflict studies, the politics of nature, and practices of love, care, and joy in the shadow of war and peace. My academic work remains informed by my experiences as a practitioner and I am committed to amplifying struggles for social justice within and beyond the academy. I am also a writer and storyteller, interested in the themes of memory and loss, nature and place, violence and care.


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• Stories of Conflict and Love