Kosova Anthropologica contributor receives appointment at US university

21-01-2026
  Kosova Anthropologica is pleased to share that Dr. Kailey Rocker, a contributing author and American Anthropologist, has recently been appointed to a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Anthropology at Wilkes University, US. Dr. Rocker has been hired to expand the Anthropology program at Wilkes from a concentration to a minor, while contributing to the Women and Gender Studies and Criminology programs.   https://www.wilkes.edu/campus-directory/kailey.rocker.aspx   Reflecting on her application process, Dr. Rocker believes that her article “The Stories that Make Us: European Holocaust Narratives and the Promise of Albanian Cosmopolitan Memory Practices” published in the first volume of Kosova Anthropologica in 2023 strengthened her candidacy for the position. Dr. Rocker also added that she enjoyed working with the Kosova Anthropologica team in the publication process and values the journal's mission "to advance anthropological knowledge in Kosova and the region" through peer-reviewed, open-access work.

Her article is avaailable to read here:

https://kosovaanthropologica.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/4/14


The Editor-in-Chief, Professor Arsim Canolli, stated: “We are very pleased that articles published by our authors are recognized by American universities as impactful contributions in academic hiring and evaluation processes.”

The editorial team of Kosova Anthropologica warmly congratulates Professor Rocker on this important professional milestone and takes pride in supporting early-career and established scholars through rigorous, open-access publishing.

We wish Professor Kailey Rocker every success in her teaching, research, and institutional leadership!

KA Editorial Team