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.

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Current PhD students 

JaAKKO HEISKanen (expected Finish 2020)

Thesis Title: The Ethnos of the Earth: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and the Structural Transformation of the International Order
Start Date: 2016
Second Supervisor: Professor Duncan Bell
​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 2020/21)

Thesis: Networked Hierarchies: Readdressing the Regional-Global Nexus in International Politics​
Start Date: 2017
Second Supervisor: Dr Mette Elstrup-Sangiovanni
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

MARIE PRUM (EXPECTED FINISH 2021)

Thesis: The Identity Politics of Sovereignty
Start Date: 2017
Second Supervisor: Prof. Duncan Bell
Dept: POLIS

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Former PhD Students

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.