Academic Grant Scholar -Joshua Rogers – School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
Joshua Rogers is a Ph.D. student at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His focus is on the dynamics of state formation and transformation during the civil war in North Yemen from 1962–1970 and is supported by the Economics and Social Research Council.
He has a particular interest in Yemen, conflict studies and ethnographic and political economy approaches to the state “from below”. Before starting his Ph.D., Joshua worked on security sector reform and youth participation in Yemen for Saferworld, for the EU Delegation to Yemen, and for the OECD, and published a range of reports and briefings on developments in Yemen, Egypt, and Libya.
He holds a BA in Modern History and Politics from Oxford University and an MA in International Relations, with a focus on Middle Eastern politics and peace and conflict studies from the Free University in Berlin. He was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation from 2008 to 2010, and a Mercator Fellow for International Affairs in 2010/11. He is thankful for the support from the British Yemeni Society, which will allow him to conduct additional interviews that would not have been possible otherwise.
