Locating the Mediterranean

Carl Rommel is a researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. His ongoing research – ‘Egypt as a Project: Dreamwork and Masculinity in a Projectified Society’ – is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Rommel’s anthropological research in Egypt focuses on masculinity, emotions, future-making, sports, revolution and ‘projects’. In 2015, Rommel earned his PhD from SOAS, University of London. Between 2017 and 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project ‘Crosslocations’ at the University of Helsinki. Rommel has published articles in Men & Masculinity, Critical African Studies, Middle East – Topics & Arguments, and Soccer & Society. His first monograph, Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity and Uneasy Politics, was published with the University of Texas Press in July 2021.

Joseph John Viscomi is a lecturer in European History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. He trained in anthropology and history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is specialised in temporality, migration, and political processes in the Mediterranean region. He is currently completing a book that examines migration, political membership, and historical time by studying the departure of Italians from Egypt in the twentieth-century. This research has been published in The Journal of Modern History, History and Anthropology, and Modern Italy. He has begun new research on depopulation in Southern Italy since the late-eighteenth century.