Visiting PhD student | Fall 2025

Contact : mr14783@bristol.ac.uk

Presentation

Martin Rogard is a doctoral candidate in political theory at the University of Bristol. His research explores how artefactually mediated practices of memory-making and forgetting constitute and unsettle bordering processes in the North American borderlands.

He has been awarded a doctoral writing fellowship as a visiting researcher at CÉRIUM and will be based at the Université de Montréal for the winter term 2025.

Martin is of Franco-Spanish origin, he grew up in Belgium and currently lives in the United Kingdom. He is trilingual and holds a BSc in Social Policy and Politics (joint honours) from the University of Bristol, an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PGCE with Qualified Teacher Status from the Institute of Education. He has taught at both secondary and university level.

Areas of expertise

• Contemporary political theory
• Border studies
• Memory studies
• Phenomenology
• Gender and discourse theory

Publications

Latest article: ‘El Carrusel’: digitising the US-Mexico border with(out) the CBP One app

Spanish version republished in elDiario.es: 'El Carrusel': las trampas de la digitalización de las fronteras estadounidenses