PhD Students

With my PhD students, November 23, 2018

PhD and Postdoc Supervision

When I have availability, I am generally 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;
that aim to develop non-Eurocentric genealogies and/or histories of modern concepts such as sovereignty, state, nationalism, terrorism etc;
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.

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.

I am also open to supporting postdoc projects and visiting scholars at POLIS if there is a match between our research interests, but I need to be given notice well in advance of the application deadline. Due to time constraints I am unable to give detailed feedback on such applications beyond reviewing them for fit; the candidate should apply with the understanding that they will be responsible for putting together their own materials.

Postdoc/Visiting Scholar supervision: Joseph Leigh (2021-2); Pal Roren (2022-4); Elise Rousseau (2022-3)
Visiting PhD student supervision: Paul Beaumont (2019); Zeger Verleye (2023)

Current PhD students (As primary)

ANNI HJERMANN (EXPECTED FINISH 2024/5)

MaRTIN HIRSCH (EXPECted finish 2024/5)

COL. WILL STRICKLAND (EXPECTED FINISH 2023)

Thesis title: Contemporary UK Strategic Practice: National Security Policy, Strategy and Decision-Making associated with Interventions.

Second supervisor: Jason Sharman

Graduated PhD Students (As primary)

JANE DARBY MENTON (2018 - 2023)

Thesis Title:
Who Speaks for the State? Narration, Representation, and the JCPOA
Placement: UC-Berkeley Postdoc

MARIE PRUM (2017 - 2022)

Thesis: The Politics of Sovereignty:
Segmentation and Stratification in International Order Today
Placement: Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs

LIANG ANYA CE (2017 - 2022)

Thesis title: Re-emergence: Temporality and Social Construction of Great Power

HAKAN SANDAL-WILSON (2016 - 2020) [GENDER STUDIES]

Thesis title: The Kurdish LGBTI+ Movement: Strategies and Tactics towards Radical Democracy

Placement: LSE Fellow in Sociology

LUCAS DE OLIVEIRA PAES (2017 - 2020)

Thesis title: Networked Hierarchies: Readdressing the Regional-Global Nexus in International Politics

Placement: Postdoc, NUPI (Oslo).

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.
Permanent Lectureship at Queen Mary London.

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.