Carl Rommel is a researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. He earned his PhD from SOAS University of London in 2015. Between 2017 and 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council Advanced-funded project “Crosslocations: Rethinking Relative Location in the Mediterranean” at the University of Helsinki. He has also held shorter research positions at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin and the University of Bern. Rommel’s anthropological research in Egypt focuses on masculinity, emotions, future-making, sports, revolution, and “projects.” His current research—"Egypt as a Project: Dreamwork and Masculinity in a Projectified Society”—is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Rommel has published articles in Men & Masculinity, Critical African Studies, Middle East – Topics & Arguments, and Soccer & Society, and co-edited the volume Locating the Mediterranean: Connections and Separations across Space and Time together with Joseph John Viscomi (Helsinki University Press, 2022). Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity and Uneasy Politics is his first monograph.
