Ball, Roi, Dr.

Research Foci
- Geschichte der (Siedler-)Kolonisierung und deren Überschneidungen mit der Entstehung von Imperien und Nationen
- Verwandtschaft
- Wissensgeschichte
- Geschichte von Kindern und Kindheit
- Umweltgeschichte
- Digitale Geschichte
Academic Education
10.2013 – 03.2021
PhD studies at the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Diss: “Constructing the Imperial Frontier: Colonization, Migration, and the Built Environment in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1886-1914.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles (Filed on March 16, 2021). Doctoral committee: David W. Sabean (Chair), Caroline C. Ford, M. Norton Wise, and Gadi Algazi (External member, Tel-Aviv University).
Research Articles (Journals)
- Ball, Roii. 2023. “Displacement, colonization, and domestic work: children’s institutions and German imperial settlement in the Polish territories of Prussia around 1900.” Settler Colonial Studies 13 (4): 484–506. doi: 10.1080/2201473X.2023.2284494.
- Ball, Roii. 2021. “Internal Colonization and Child Displacement in Prussian Poland before World War I.” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 47 (4): 534–562. doi: 10.13109/gege.2021.47.4.534.

Dr. Roii Ball