Rogers Orock is an anthropologist who holds a BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Buea (Cameroon), an MSc. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Helsinki (Finland), an MA in International Studies from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris (France), and a PhD in Anthropology from Aarhus University (Denmark). 

Rogers’ research is situated at the intersection of political anthropology, development studies and international studies. His earlier research focused on elites, political mobilization, and the vernacular politics of democracy and accountability in Cameroon. In addition to several peer-reviewed articles on this theme, he is also the editor (with Wale Adebanwi) of Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa (University of Michigan Press, 2021). His current research is a collaborative study (with Peter Geschiere) that focuses on Freemasonry, postcolonial homophobia, and illicit enrichment by elites in Francophone Central Africa. This project underlines the value of the idioms of suspicion and magical politics for understanding contemporary political dynamics as well as the complex entanglement of French-African relations in Francophone Central and West Africa. His recent publications on this theme have appeared in the Journal of Modern African Studies, African Affairs, and Africa: the Journal of the International Africa Institute.