Arpan Roy is an anthropologist currently researching Christianity in the Arab world. He is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His previous research was on the experience of difference in Palestine and Jordan, explored through the case of Romani communities in the region.

He is the author of Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference; to be published in October 2024 by University of Toronto Press. The book explores a model of Romani alterity based on how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together in a way that is neither visible by obvious markers like race or religious difference, nor detectable by the antennas of the state. A second book in press is Naseej / نسيج, a co-edited multidisciplinary volume on plurality in Palestine that is the first book project from Insaniyyat—the Society of Palestinian Anthropologists.