Note for PhD Applicants: In addition to projects which align with my current and past research interests, 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;
  • dealing with empires and imperialism from any time period;
  • that aim to develop non-Eurocentric genealogies and/or histories of modern concepts such as sovereignty, state, nationalism, terrorism etc;
  • that deal with the history of political thought outside of the West; 
  • 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. 

* I am not accepting any new PhD students for supervision for the 2019-2020 academic year, given the number of students I am currently supervising. The text above is for general information.* 

Current phD students 

Dylan Loh
​(POLIS)
STart YEAR: 2015
Consistently Inconsistent?
​A Bourdiesian Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy ​in
Southeast Asia
Jaakko Heiskanen
​(POLIS)
Start year: 2016
Contextualising the Transformation of Nationalism across the 20th Century:
​ Western Discourses of Nationalism and Peace-building in the Balkans
Hakan Hakkı
Sandal 
(Gender)
START YEar: 2016
The Kurdish LGBT Movement:
​Survival Under Colonial Practices

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Lucas De Oliveira Paes (POLIS) 
Start Year: 2017
Networked Hierarchies: Readdressing the Regional-Global Nexus in International Politics

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Ce (Anya) Liang
​(POLIS) 
Start year: 2017


​Glorious Past, Vulnerable Present:  Great Powers Re-emergence in International Politics
Marie Prum
(POLIS)
start year: 2017

​Sovereignty and the confrontation between Self and Other

Former Students

Peera Charoenvattananukul (POLIS). 2014 - 2018. Thesis title: "Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand’s Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War".  Successfully deposited.