Roxani Krystalli
Dr. Roxani Krystalli is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on feminist peace and conflict studies, as well as on the politics of nature and place. A key question animating Roxani’s work within and beyond the academy is how people imagine and enact worlds in the wake of loss. She is currently the co-Principal Investigator of a research project on the politics of love and care in the wake of violence, ecological loss, and mass grief. This work is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation, and unfolds in collaboration with Dr Philipp Schulz.
Roxani’s first book, Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question was published by Oxford University Press in 2024, and is based on in-depth engagement in Colombia over the course of a decade. Her research on the politics of victimhood won the Peter Ackerman Prize in 2020 and, in the same year, Roxani was the runner-up for the Cynthia Enloe award of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Roxani has also won the 2023 British International Studies Association prize for Early Career Excellence in Teaching International Studies and the Golden Dandelion award for sustainability in the curriculum. Her academic research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the United States Institute of Peace, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Henry J. Leir Institute, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, and the World Peace Foundation, among others.
Alongside her academic work, Roxani has worked as a professional in the field of peacebuilding, advising international organisations on how to document and respond to gendered experiences of violence. She holds a PhD and MA from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a BA from Harvard University. Roxani was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, and lives in Scotland.
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This briefing paper examines the ways in which young people take advantage of emerging livelihood opportunities and respond to shocks.
This briefing paper explores some of the major life events and social markers for young people in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda.
This paper analyzes and investigates young people’s interactions with savings and credit associations and how this contributed to livelihood strategies.
This briefing paper examines changes to wedding rituals and the nature of marriages in the Bentiu Protection of Civilians site and adjacent areas of Rubkona and Bentiu towns.
This briefing paper explores the establishment and reconfiguration of informal livelihood groups and associations as a form of socioeconomic connectedness in Bentiu, South Sudan.
This briefing paper examines changes in social connectedness in the Bentiu Protection of Civilians site and surrounding town.
This report presents findings on the experiences and aspirations of male and female youth as they interact with the economic and aid systems in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda. This…
In partnership with Mercy Corps, Feinstein researchers undertook this work to understand why some households are managing the devastating impacts of war better than others.
This report investigates what money and financial transactions can reveal about the journeys and experiences of forced migration.
This paper synthesizes evidence appraisal practices to inform evidence syntheses in the Humanitarian Evidence Program. It is addressed to all audiences interested in humanitarian evidence, including but not limited to researchers,…
FEINSTEIN RESEARCH PROJECTS
Feinstein’s work as part of the Apolou project seeks to understand the impacts over time of a shift to an increasingly cash-based economy on different wealth, livelihood, and demographic groups.
In this partnership with Mercy Corps, the Feinstein International Center team investigates the nature of social networks and social connectedness, and explores how humanitarian assistance can strengthen these as a key aspect of resilience, recovery and relief interventions in complex humanitarian emergencies.
The Humanitarian Evidence Program produces a series of evidence syntheses to distill humanitarian evidence and communicate it to key stakeholders in order to enable better decision-making and improve humanitarian policy and practice.