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With my PhD students, November 23, 2018

Prospective PhD Students

I am open to supervising projects
  • with a historical approach to IR and which focus on (some aspect of) the evolution of the international system and the modern state, especially if the focus is on non-Western regions; 
  • focused on the relationship between foreign policy, social status, stigmatisation, ontological security, historical trauma, collective memory etc.; 
  • conceptualising some aspect of hierarchies in world politics;
  • that aim to develop non-Eurocentric genealogies and/or histories of modern concepts such as sovereignty, state, nationalism, terrorism etc;​
  • broadly related to countries I have written on, such as Turkey, Russia, Japan and Thailand, as long they are also theoretically ambitious. ​​
Due to the high volume of inquiries I receive (and also for reasons of fairness), I am unable to give specific feedback on pre-submission application materials (including research proposals). If you think your research interests match mine, feel free to name me as a potential supervisor in your application. Prior contact with me has no bearing on the chances of success of your application. I interview all applicants I am considering for PhD supervision, but only after they pass the initial admissions committee screening.

Current PhD students (As primary)

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JaNE DARBY MENTON (EXPECTED FINISH 2022)
Thesis Title: Narrating Foreign Affairs: Elites, the Press, and the Public in the New Digital Age
Second Supervisor: Prof David Runciman
​​MARIE PRUM (EXPECTED FINISH 2021)
Thesis: The Identity Politics of Sovereignty
Start Date: 2017
Second Supervisor: Prof. Duncan Bell
Dept: POLIS
LIANG CE [ANYA LIANG] (EXPECTED FINISH 2021)
Thesis: Glorious Past, Vulnerable Present:  Great Powers Re-emergence in International Politics
Start Date: 2017
Second Supervisor: Prof. Jason Sharman
Dept: POLIS
HAKAN SANDAL (EXPECTED FINISH 2020)
​Thesis: The Kurdish LGBT Movement: Survival Under Colonial Practices
Start Date: 2016
Second Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox
Dept: Centre for Gender Studies
​LUCAS DE OLIVEIRA PAES (EXPECTED FINISH 2020)
Thesis: Networked Hierarchies: Readdressing the Regional-Global Nexus in International Politics​
Start Date: 2017
Second Supervisor: Dr Mark Shirk
Dept: POLIS

Former PhD Students (As primary)

JAAKKO HEISKANEN (2016-2020)
Thesis Title: The Ethnos of the Earth: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and the Structural Transformation of the International Order
Placement: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. POLIS, University of Cambridge
​DYLAN LOH (2015-2019)
​Thesis title: "Diplomacy in the Making: A Practice-Based Account of China’s Foreign Ministry in the Field of Diplomacy"
Placement: Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
PEERA CHAROENVATTANAKUL (2014-2018)
​Thesis title: "Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand’s Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War".  
Placement: Lectureship at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.