Ayse Zarakol, PhD
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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

  


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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
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​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, Sin​​gapore.
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.
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