重口味SM

"I am a cultural anthropologist who specializes in human rights, history and memory, political anthropology, youth cultural production, and material culture. My research in southeastern Europe focuses on how actors in Albania and the Western Balkans negotiate international human rights discourse and democratization in the present to confront the 20th century socialist past and establish futures they desire for themselves, their nation, and their region. In this project, I confront what it means to be human in an increasingly globalized world, faced with the challenging legacies of the past and the continued hold of neoliberalism in this post-Cold War moment.

In addition to introductory and qualitative methods courses in Anthropology, I enjoy teaching courses on history and memory, human rights, Europe and the Balkans, migration, and science fiction. Check out this short story collection that I produced together with students who took my Winter 2025 鈥淎nthropology and Science Fiction鈥� course at Lawrence University: .

As I tell students in my courses, I am excited to learn with you!"

• PhD, Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2022
• MA, Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017
• BA, Anthropology and Sociology, Millsaps College, 2012

• Rocker, Kailey. 2023. 鈥淭he Stories that Make Us: European Holocaust Narratives and the Promise of Albanian Cosmopolitan Memory Practices.鈥� Kosova Anthropologica, 1(1): 22-41. .
• Rocker, Kailey. 2022. 鈥淎n Anthropologist Adrift: A Story on Care, Grief, and Becoming in a Pandemic.鈥� Journal of Anthropology and Humanism, 47(1): 246-251. .
• Rocker, Kailey and Arba Bekteshi. 2019. 鈥淓xploring a Diffuse and Unstructured Participatory Action Research Frame: Mourning as a Tool for Social Interposition in Tirana, Albania.鈥� Irish Journal of Anthropology, 22(1): 224-237.

• Galaty, Michael; Lorenc Bejko; and Kailey Rocker. 2023. 鈥淪ystematic, Intensive Landscape Survey Results.鈥� Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodr毛s (PASH), Volume One: Survey and Excavation Results, ed. Michael Galaty and Lorenc Bejko. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Archaeology Press, p. 89-165. .
• Rocker, Kailey and Jonathan Eaton. 2022. 鈥淎cting Out the Future of the Albanian National Theatre: New Heritage at the Intersection of Resistance and New Media.鈥� Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance, ed. Evren Uzer and Feras Hammami. Palgrave, p. 41-69. .

• Rocker, Kailey. 2023. 鈥淰ital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe by Andrea Muehlebach.鈥� Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 46(2): e53-e56. .
• Rocker, Kailey. 2022. 鈥淭ales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania by Smoki Musaraj.鈥� Anthropological Notebooks, 28(1): S1-S3. .

• Rocker, Kailey. 2025. Sci-Fi: An Anthropology Anthology of Other Worlds, 1. Lawrence University. . 
• Rocker, Kailey. 2023. 鈥淜ailey Rocker Takes the Page 99 Test.鈥� Page 99 for CaMP Dissertations. CaMP Blog. September 4, 2023. .
• Rocker, Kailey. 2019. 鈥淩uins, Bodies, and Pyramids: Exploring Communist Ruins and Memory Politics in Albania鈥� . Edited by Jonila Godole and Idrit Idrizi. IDMC: Tirana.
• Godole, Jonila; Kailey Rocker; and Edlira Agolli. 2018. . IDMC: Tirana, Albania.