Dr. Lena Rose

Dr. Lena Rose works on the Anthropology of Law, the Anthropology of the State and the Anthropology of Religion. Her key research areas are migration, asylum law and politics, religious minorities, religious conversion, globalisation and transnational religious networks, with focus on Europe as well as the Middle East.

Her current research examines the tension between power, culture, and religion in asylum processes of converts to Christianity in Europe. Lena Rose has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in administrative courts, churches and lawyers’ offices in this regard. You can find news, information and publications related to the project here: Christianity on Trial: Asylum, Conversion, and the Modern Nation-State.

Lena Rose has extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East, Germany, and Great Britain. She has published her work in journals such as Current Anthropology, Ethnos,  Global Networks, Geopolitics,  Oxford Journal of Law and Religion and AAPSS. Moreover, Lena Rose has spoken as expert on BBC4 World at One and Radio 4 Sunday Programme and has made her work accessible to a wide audience e.g. in The Conversation. Lena Rose is currently in the final stages of completing a monograph about her research on Palestinian evangelicals in the context of global evangelicalism.

Before taking up her role at the University of Konstanz in October 2022, Lena Rose was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. She completed her doctorate (DPhil) at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford (2019), following a MSc Migration Studies at the Department of International Development (Oxford). She completed her BA in English language, literature and culture and political science at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Leeds. Lena Rose co-founded the Migration Network Oxford and led the network from 2017 to 2019. She is affiliated with the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford.