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.
Current PhD students (As primary)
COL. WILL STRICKLAND (EXPECTED FINISH 2023)
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
Second Supervisor: Prof David Runciman
Graduated PhD Students (As primary)
LIANG ANYA CE (2017- 2021)
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
Visiting Fellow, POLIS, Cambridge
Visiting Fellow, POLIS, Cambridge
LUCAS DE OLIVEIRA PAES (2017-2020)
Thesis title: Networked Hierarchies: Readdressing the Regional-Global Nexus in International Politics
Placement: Postdoc, NUPI (Oslo)
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
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.
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.
Placement: Lectureship at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.